Pacific viaduct

Looking around on a cold autumn ride

Written November 28th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 6 responses.

Winter won’t start for another three weeks, but the air was chilly enough on my bike ride through parts of Albany on Tuesday afternoon.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: bike ride, Eihth Ave Canal, fall weather, ice and frost, Pacific viaduct, South Pacific, tower for swifts, winter

What happened here? A fire on June 10

Written June 27th, 2023 by Hasso Hering

Comments: no responses.

The hill on the south side of the Pacific Boulevard overpass bears the obvious traces of a recent fire. I could not help noticing this on Monday when I rode on the pathway between Albany Station and Swanson Park.

Posted in: Bicycling, Commentary, News
Tags: Albany Fire Department, fire, hillside fire, June 10 fire, Pacific overpass, Pacific viaduct, railroad underpass

A praying mantis on that distant roof?

Written January 29th, 2020 by Hasso Hering

Comments: one response.

What’s that odd-looking yellow contraption up on the roof in the distance? It caught my eye on Jan. 25 as I was standing under the Pacific Boulevard viaduct in Albany and looking around.

Posted in: Commentary
Tags: cold storage, ecoomic development, Pacific viaduct, Van Vleet Meat

Rocks in a hard place: No more camping

Written October 24th, 2019 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 27 responses.

Some 522 tons of rocks and boulders have put a stop — for now at least — to a longstanding problem: Squatters camping under the Pacific Boulevard viaduct in Albany where Jackson Street and Seventh Avenue meet.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany homeless, Knife River rocks, Pacific viaduct

Area cleaned up by — guess who?

Written January 31st, 2019 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 4 responses.

The Swanson Path and surrounding grounds, which only a week ago had been a mess of discarded blankets and other trash, has been cleaned up, and you’ll be astonished to learn by whom.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Albany Police community resource unit, cleanup of vagrant camp, Pacific viaduct

Costly pathway turns into trashy walk

Written January 22nd, 2019 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 12 responses.

Sometimes you get the feeling it makes no sense to spend big money on public improvements as long as vandals and vagrants remain free — and motivated, if that’s the right word — to ruin them with spray paint and trash.

Posted in: Commentary
Tags: Albany Station, Pacific viaduct, Station-Swanson path, vagrancy, vandalism

The cleanup never ends

Written January 23rd, 2018 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 3 responses.

The wasteland under the Pacific Boulevard viaduct is not exactly Albany’s garden spot. Vagrants have turned it into a dump where repeated cleanups have to be done.

Posted in: Commentary
Tags: homelessness, ODOT, Pacific viaduct, parks maintenance, vagrancy