Pacific Boulevard

Why there’s debris in highway bike lanes

Written June 18th, 2024 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 10 responses.

“As a fellow cyclist,” Albany resident Travis Remington asked me, “how do feel about the upkeep of the main bike lanes through Albany?”

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: bicycling, bike lanes, Highway 99E, highways, ODOT, Pacific Boulevard, street sweeper

Hub City Village: When it aims to be done

Written June 16th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 6 responses.

Now that construction on Hub City Village has started, when will this planned unit development of 27 small houses in Albany be ready for otherwise homeless people to move in?

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: Creatring Housing Coalition, homeless, Hub City Village, Pacific Boulevard, Salem Avenue, Stacey Bartholomew, tiny houses, Waverly Drive

Former gas station site may get a restaurant

Written February 6th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 10 responses.

A new restaurant may be built on the former site of a gas station on the corner of Pacific Boulevard and Madison Street in Albany if the new owners go through with their plans.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: 902 Pacific S.E., Albany land use, Albany lot, gas station, Pacific Boulevard, restaurant, Union 76

A new intersection feature: Thermal detectors

Written January 25th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 11 responses.

Following up on the new signal installations on two Albany highways, here’s a revelation: Yes, ODOT did put in new cameras, but they look not for vehicles but for people on foot.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany highways, ODOT, Pacific Boulevard, Santiam Highway, Teledyne FLIR, thermal detectors, traffic signals

Later this year, major work along Queen

Written January 11th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 4 responses.

This summer, get ready for a big reconstruction project on the west end of Queen Avenue, a key traffic route in Albany.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Ferry Street, Pacific Boulevard, pavement rehab, Queen Avenue, railroad crossing, repaving, utility work, water line

Watching sports fields grow at Albany Y

Written December 13th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 4 responses.

Now and then the bike takes me along 34th Avenue, where for the past year or so construction has been progressing on the ambitious sports complex being built by the Mid Willamette Family YMCA.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: 34th Avenue, Albany YMCA, Mid Willamette Family YMCA, Pacific Boulevard, soccer fields

Looking up at signals, and here’s why

Written December 1st, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 6 responses.

There was a reason I parked at Waverly Park and started walking around, craning my neck and pointing my phone at the new signal installations on Pacific Boulevard, at Albany Avenue on one side and Airport Road on the other.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Airport Road, ODOT, Pacific Boulevard, red light cameras, Santiam Highway, traffic, traffic cameras, Waverly Drive