Pacific Boulevard

What’s going in there? Now we know

Written March 4th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: one response.

For more than three years, passers-by have been wondering what was going in at this address on busy Pacific Boulevard in Albany. This week we got the answer when wall signs started going up.

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Tags: 416 Pacific Blvd S.W., Albany business, Albany Carpet One, carpet business, Carpet One, Pacific Boulevard

Changes coming on Santiam and Pacific

Written January 14th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 16 responses.

I took this photo on a Sunday in February 2020, after ODOT announced plans to work on the busy Albany intersection of Waverly Drive and Santiam Highway. Now the department is getting ready to carry out that and another Albany project at an estimated combined cost of nearly $6 million.

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Tags: Airport Road, Albany highway projects, highway work, ODOT, Pacific Boulevard, raised median, Santiam Highway, Waverly and U.S. 20

Riding in the ‘bike gutter’: Clean but risky

Written October 29th, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 14 responses.

Watching a video on urban planning and transportation the other day, I heard the presenter refer to “bike gutters.” What did he mean?

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Tags: bicycling, bike lanes, hghways, Pacific Boulevard, transportation

Seen up close, those sewer grates are safe

Written January 9th, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 5 responses.

Friday’s short video tour of bike lanes along Highways 20 and 99E (Albany’s Santiam Highway and Pacific Boulevard) caused a least a couple of viewers to worry about the sewer grates as they flashed by.

Posted in: Commentary
Tags: Albany highways, bike lanes, cycling, Pacific Boulevard, Santiam Highway, storm sewer grates

What’s that? Another construction site…

Written December 11th, 2018 by Hasso Hering

Comments: one response.

What are they building there? That’s a question I get now and then, and in the case of 416 Pacific Blvd. S.W. in Albany, the short answer is “a commercial building.”

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Tags: Albany construction, Bob Mitchell, Pacific Boulevard

What’s ‘wrong’ with this scene?

Written May 9th, 2017 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 3 responses.

There’s not much to say about this Albany highway sign, except that, well, this does look like the wrong way to attach a sign.

Posted in: Commentary
Tags: Albany highways, Pacific Boulevard, Wrong Way

On Pacific, from Wendy’s to weeds

Written July 3rd, 2016 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 9 responses.

What used to be Wendy’s restaurant on Albany’s Pacific Boulevard has been closed for a year and a half, and the property has turned into a showcase of landscaping neglect.

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Tags: Albany Wendy's, Pacific Boulevard, Rancho Santa Fe, Wendy's