People driving to the Albany Hospital now don’t have to dodge as many potholes as before.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Enough already with that roundabout
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.
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