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A perspective from Oregon’s mid-Willamette Valley

Enough already with that roundabout

Written August 21st, 2025 by Hasso Hering

If you’re reading this, you may be spending way too much time on this “mini roundabout” that a contractor for the city of Albany is building on Salem Avenue at Waverly Drive.


The pavement beat: Improvement on Third

Written July 31st, 2025 by Hasso Hering

The pavement on Southeast Third Avenue between Main and Madison streets was one of the worst in that section of Albany, and the subject of occasional complaints.


Elm Street: Pavement, ramps and history too

Written July 23rd, 2025 by Hasso Hering

Twenty-five years after rebuilding Elm Street in West Albany, the city plans to renew the pavement on this former section of Oregon Highway 99.


Nice corner job: Remembering a builder

Written June 4th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

A bit of Albany history has been preserved in the city’s paving project along Washington Street. It’s the name of the contractor, the son of Oregon pioneers, who built part of the street more than a century ago.


Still on the pothole beat: hospital street

Written February 12th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

Albany General Hospital lies in the 1000 block between Sixth and Seventh avenues. Seventh is a fine street with good pavement, so how come there are big craters in Sixth?


Queen crossing now features a bike trap

Written January 8th, 2025 by Hasso Hering

If ODOT and the railroads ever carry out their plans for the Queen Avenue crossing in Albany, I’ll quit writing about it. But the improvement project at the crossing keeps slipping further back in time.


More than patches: Bad pavement gets a fix

Written October 21st, 2024 by Hasso Hering

For many years, a section of 12th Avenue in West Albany was notorious for its plentitude of potholes. On Sunday I discovered that the City of Albany did something about it.


 
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