Several big issues have to be resolved before there’s any chance that the long planned Albany-Corvallis bike and walking path along Highway 20 can be built.
The idea of building a roughly eight-mile bike path between Albany and Corvallis has been kicking around ever since the Benton County Commissioners mentioned it in 2003. Now the county and ODOT are once again hoping to determine a route the path could take.
As you may have read here before, Albany is about to get another traffic roundabout. Judging by how befuddled a few drivers still seem to be by these features on our streets, it might be worth another look at how to use them.
The wooden “riverwalk” under the Ellsworth Street Bridge is as good a place as any on Albany’s Dave Clark Path to stop the bike and look around. So that’s what I did for a few minutes on Saturday night. Here’s the result: What else is there to say about the Clark Path, where the bike […]
If you approach the rail crossing on Queen Avenue from the east, beware of the trap they’ve left for people on bikes.
For years, bike riders using Albany’s Periwinkle Bike path to go across town faced a slight dilemma: how best to cross the intersection of Queen Avenue and Geary Street.
Three projects may ease downtown congestion
Traffic into downtown Albany across the Ellsworth Street Bridge may flow a little easier a few years from now because of planned changes that ODOT has tentatively approved.
Tags: downtown Albany, Ellsworth and Lyon, First Avenue, Highway 20 corridor, ODOT, parking, traffic, turn lanes