Repairs were under way Monday at Third Avenue and Lyon Street in downtown Albany following a traffic crash on Sunday evening that sheared off a signal mast.
Someone asked what Linn County was building on Lyon Street south of the Armory Building in downtown Albany. The answer is: A 23-space parking lot complete with landscaping and wiring for five future electric-vehicle charging stations.
The Albany City Council Wednesday denied a request by Greater Albany Public Schools to let bus barn employees routinely drive through a residential neighborhood to get to and from work.
The four-piece sculpture off Lyon Street near Eighth Avenue in Albany has been up for more than two years. Until now, I didn’t know it had a name.
Albany has approved a site plan for redoing a Water Avenue parking lot in order to make it fit in with the planned riverfront redevelopment. The estimated cost is $182,000.
Though not, admittedly, among the burning issues of the day, how to spell Albany’s Lyon Street is occasionally in dispute. People tend to spell it with an “s” at the end of Lyon, but the “s” does not belong there.
Is it public art if it’s kind of hard to see?
It was five years ago that Albany installed an art arrangement of sculptures near a busy highway. If no one talks about it much, or at all, it’s because the thing is kind of hard to see.
Tags: Lyon Street, Pacific overpass, public art, steel wildflowers