Linn County Road Department

No more goldfish on this Albany road

Written April 11th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 2 responses.

On a bike ride Friday, I took another look at Goldfish Farm Road, where a contractor for Linn County this week started replacing the bridge over Cox Creek.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: bike lanes, Goldfish Farm Road, Highway 20, Linn County Road Department, sidewalks, street improvements

Bridge project to close Goldfish Farm Road

Written April 5th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 7 responses.

Goldfish Farm Road, between Knox Butte Road and Santiam Highway on the east side of Albany, will be closed to through traffic starting Monday so the bridge across Cox Creek can be replaced.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: bridge replacement, Cascade Civil Corp., deficient bridge, detour, Goldfish Farm Road, Linn County Road Department, ODOT, Price Road, Scravel Hill Road

Cox Creek bridge replacement inches forward

Written October 23rd, 2024 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 4 responses.

On a bike ride Wednesday, I stopped at the bridge across Cox Creek on Waverly Drive. Except that the pavement has become more pitted, little has changed there since the bridge was briefly closed and then restricted to one driving lane in 2005.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: Cox Creek bridge, Linn County Road Department, Portland & Western, Simpson Park, Talking Water Gardens, Waverly Drive bridge

Fix this bridge? Yes, state plans to do so

Written March 19th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 9 responses.

With plenty of time on your hands, you can scroll through hundreds of pages of government documents such as, for instance, the latest draft of ODOT’s “STIP” for 2024-2027. And if you do, you might find a surprise.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: Cox Creek, Linn County Road Department, Millersburg, ODOT, STIP, Talking Water Gardens, Waverly Drive bridge

What’s that construction on Old Salem?

Written May 28th, 2020 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 5 responses.

If they want to walk from Millersburg to Albany, or the other way, one of these days people will have a paved sidewalk to make the trip. A segment of nearly seven-tenths of a mile is under construction now.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Brown Contracting, Linn County Road Department, Old Salem Road, Old Salem sidewalk

Noted: Some nice new pavement

Written October 20th, 2017 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 7 responses.

Getting streets maintained and pavement repaired is always an issue in Albany, but not any more on two streets in a leafy neighborhood at the southwest edge of town.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany streets, Lakewood, Linn County Road Department, Park Terrace, street maintenance, street repairs

Bids opened for Riverside Drive

Written August 29th, 2017 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 2 responses.

The Linn County Road Department this morning opened bids for widening about 2.4 miles of Riverside Drive from Oakville Road to Meadow Road, a long-planned project that will make the road safer for both motorists and bicyclists.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: bikeway, Knife River, Linn County Road Department, Riverside Drive, widening Riverside