Most afternoons, around 4 and 5 p.m., Albany’s Pacific-Ninth one-way couplet is a busy place, traffic plugging all available lanes, backing up at lights. And when you hear sirens and see the flashing lights, what you’re supposed to do to let the emergency vehicles through is impossible and may actually hold them up.
Posted in: Commentary
Tags: ambulances, driver manual, emergency vehicles, Ninth Avenue, Oregon rules of the road
Tags: ambulances, driver manual, emergency vehicles, Ninth Avenue, Oregon rules of the road
Return to the cycling front
Back on the Albany bicycling front (a tranquil retreat from the renewed but fruitless gun debate), the good old Periwinkle Bikepath comes to mind. First, because it’s being lengthened, thus becoming a bit more useful for transportation. And second, because to become truly useful it still needs an intersection fix.
Tags: Albany Transportation System Plan, Lowe's, Ninth Avenue, Periwinkle Bikepath, Queen and Geary