“We ought to do something about Highway 20.” I’ve heard words to that effect for more than 30 years. But nothing significant has been done.
Bike/Ped Plan: It’s just words
Written December 14th, 2015 by Hasso Hering
The Oregon Department of Transportation has come up with the draft of its new Bicycle/Pedestrian Plan, and it has asked for further public comment. To me the plan is similar to the much-ballyhooed Paris climate accord in this respect: Lots of words but no action to bring about a particular result.
‘Sharrows’ on busy highways?
Written December 8th, 2015 by Hasso Hering
“Sharrow” sets the spellchecker abuzz because it’s not in most dictionaries. It’s a contraction that describes a pavement marking, kind of an “arrow” or chevron, that calls on motorists to “share” the road with bicyclists. Today’s question is whether sharrows should be painted on Albany’s Ellsworth and Lyon streets and on the Ellsworth Street bridge.
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Tags: Albany City Council, Ellsworth, Highway 20, Lyon, ODOT, sharrows. Albany bicycle and ped commission
Tags: Albany City Council, Ellsworth, Highway 20, Lyon, ODOT, sharrows. Albany bicycle and ped commission
Open all the way: Hwy. 34 bikeway
Written November 12th, 2015 by Hasso Hering
Finally, the Highway 34 bikeway in Linn County is finished and open to traffic. It allows cyclists to make a convenient and relatively safe round trip from Albany to Corvallis, though when I tried it out Thursday afternoon, mine was the only bike I saw all along the roughly 25 miles of the route.
Hwy. 34 bikeway: Still not quite open
Written November 9th, 2015 by Hasso Hering
You’d think the new Highway 34 bikeway between Riverside Drive and Wolcott Road would be finished and completely open by now. But no. I went down to take a look Monday afternoon, and the path west of Colorado Lake Drive was still closed while workers complete installation of a railing.
Train study: another inch forward
Written October 27th, 2015 by Hasso Hering
What do you know! After nearly three years of study, the Oregon Passenger Rail project has concluded that the best route between Eugene and Portland is the existing rail line between Eugene and Portland. But is this final? Hah, you dreamer! No, it’s preliminary. More study to follow.
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A question of speed and cost
No, ODOT says, the new signs announcing higher speed limits on highways east of the Cascades are not quite as expensive as officials had projected. Still, getting ready for the speed change authorized by the 2015 legislature is not a simple matter of just putting up new signs where the old ones used to be.
Tags: 70 mph, I-5, I-84, ODOT, sped limits