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Albany Station gets a new path

Written April 8th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

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More exciting infrastructure news: The last piece of Albany’s station project is about to fall into place. The Oregon Department of Transportation has awarded a contract for construction of a 600-foot path from the rail-and-transit hub to the other side of the Pacific Boulevard viaduct and the vicinity of Swanson Park.

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Tags: Albany Station, HP Civil Inc., multiuse path, ODOT

Albany-Corvallis trail: There’s hope!

Written March 25th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

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Good news on the bicycling front: The proposed cycling and walking path between Albany and Corvallis has finally moved from being a mere dream to the realm of the possible. I’ve written about that trail for 10 years or more and hoped I might be able to use it some day. Now it’s possible it could be built in […]

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Tags: Albany-Corvallis Trail, Benton County Public Works, Connect Oregon V, ODOT, STIP

Much improved: I-5 rest areas

Written March 23rd, 2014 by Hasso Hering

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In recent years, stopping at Oregon’s I-5 rest areas usually made it necessary to pass by a panhandler on your way to or from the restroom. That may have been one of the first things that Oregon Travel Experience has worked to prevent.

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Tags: Interstate 5, ODOT, Oregon Travel Experience, rest areas

Fog lights: Use only when needed

Written January 22nd, 2014 by Hasso Hering

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Three years ago, state authorities were moved to remind Oregon drivers about the correct and legal use of fog or auxiliary lights. The advice didn’t take. “It seems to me,” reader Steven Mills correctly observes in an email, “that hundreds of drivers driving with fog lights turned on need an education on the Oregon laws.” His is […]

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Tags: fog lights, ODOT, Oregon law, Oregon State Police

Better rail when? Nobody knows

Written January 13th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

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As for catching a ride on a high-speed or even moderately fast passenger train up the Willamette Valley any time soon, don’t get your hopes up. There is no estimate for when such a service might start, says Jim Cox of the Oregon Department of Transportation. He and Benton County Commissioner Linda Modrell spoke about […]

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Tags: Corvallis City Club, Jim Cox, Linda Modrell, ODOT, Oregon passenger rail

Train service to increase

Written January 4th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

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Things are happening on the passenger rail front in the Willamette Valley, one right away and the other in the indefinite future. Oregon’s two new Talgo train sets start revenue service on Monday (Jan. 6), when the number of southbound trains stopping in Albany on weekdays increases from three a day to four.

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Tags: Amtrak, Cascades trains, ODOT, passenger rail

ODOT’s solution: Striping or warnings

Written December 4th, 2013 by Hasso Hering

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The left-turn collision on Highway 20 at Independence Highway on Tuesday (Dec. 3), in which one driver was cited for running the stop sign on Independence and was seriously injured, reminds everyone that there’s a problem. And ODOT knows it.

Posted in: Commentary
Tags: Granger Road, Highway 20, Independence Highway, left-turn crashes, ODOT, traffic crashes