Oregon Transportation Commission

Bike solution at Queen and Geary: It’s easy

Written July 12th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 17 responses.

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.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: Community Paths Program, diagonal signal, ODOT, Oregon Transportation Commission, pedestrian crossing, Periwinkle Bikepath, Queen and Geary

Forget ‘multi-use;’ install lane markers

Written June 26th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 10 responses.

As someone who occasionally rides a bike across the Willamette River on Highway 20, I was interested in the news that ODOT is willing to spend money to study the idea of a “multi-use path” on the Lyon Street Bridge.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: bicycling, Lyon Street bridge, multi-use path, ODOT, Oregon Community Paths Project, Oregon Transportation Commission, project refinement

Truck speed change approved

Written September 27th, 2017 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 5 responses.

Will raising the speed limit for trucks make a difference on Oregon freeways? We’ll find out as soon as ODOT gets around to completing the paperwork and installing new signs.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: freeay truck speeds, ODOT, Oregon Transportation Commission

Queen crossing on state’s agenda

Written August 12th, 2017 by Hasso Hering

Comments: one response.

The Oregon Transportation Commission is poised to approve a project to make Albany’s Queen Avenue railroad crossing safer and, for cars, smoother. But it won’t deal with traffic delays when the gates are down.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Oregon Transportation Commission, Portland & Western, Queen Avenue crossing

Cor-Alb trail funds OK’d: And now?

Written August 22nd, 2014 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 2 responses.

The Aug. 16 story about the Corvallis-Albany — or Albany-Corvallis, depending on our viewpoint — bike trail generated more comments on this webside than any previous item. So you may be interested to learn that the Oregon Transportation Commission today approved partial funding of the project, and the question is: Now what?

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany-Corvallis Trail, Benton County, Corvallis-Albany Trail, Oregon Transportation Commission

Cor-Alb bike trail: Here’s why

Written August 16th, 2014 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 33 responses.

When it meets in Ontario later this month, the Oregon Transportation Commission is set to allocate $2 million toward the construction of a bike trail between Corvallis and Albany. Two crashes elsewhere in Oregon, one of which killed a cyclist, illustrate why this is a sound idea.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany-Corvallis Trail, Connect Oregon V, Highway 20, Oregon Transportation Commission