Highway 99E

Why there’s debris in highway bike lanes

Written June 18th, 2024 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 10 responses.

“As a fellow cyclist,” Albany resident Travis Remington asked me, “how do feel about the upkeep of the main bike lanes through Albany?”

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: bicycling, bike lanes, Highway 99E, highways, ODOT, Pacific Boulevard, street sweeper

Hanging out in center of a highway couplet

Written June 23rd, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 11 responses.

Surrounded by heavy traffic in the middle of Albany, there are two islands of lawn, flowers, bushes and trees. Lately the larger of the two has become a place for apparently homeless people to hang out.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany parks, Highway 20, Highway 99E, homeless, ODOT property, traffic islands

Guardrail ends: Don’t hit them!

Written October 27th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 3 responses.

We’ve all seen them, those yellow and black end pieces of highway guardrails. And you may have wondered, as I have, why they are so blunt and what would happen if a car veered off the pavement and hit one. Now we know, sort of. They are built that way to make collisions less catastrophic than they […]

Posted in: Commentary
Tags: guardrail end terminals, Highway 99E, ODOT, Trinity Industries Inc.

Police site: The access issue

Written July 25th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

Comments: no responses.

There’s been some question about access to and from the planned site of a new Albany police station on Pacific Boulevard S.W. (Highway 99E). Today there’s new information on that point from Ron Irish, the city’s transportation systems analyst.

Posted in: News
Tags: Albany police department. Albany City Council, Highway 99E, Oregon DOT, Pacific Boulevard