What’s better on Christmas Eve than a quick bike ride through town, including a short jaunt on a segment of Albany’s Periwinkle Bikepath?
Students tackle bike path study
Written April 18th, 2017 by Hasso Hering
It was in 1973 that that a group of seniors at Oregon State University had an assignment of designing bikeways for the city of Albany, and the Periwinkle Bikepath was the result. Now another group of students, from the University of Oregon this time, has taken on a similar challenge. It may be too much to expect a similar […]
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Tags: bicycle transportation, Periwinkle Bikepath, Santiam Canal, Sustainable Cities
Tags: bicycle transportation, Periwinkle Bikepath, Santiam Canal, Sustainable Cities
Return to the cycling front
Written October 2nd, 2015 by Hasso Hering
Back on the Albany bicycling front (a tranquil retreat from the renewed but fruitless gun debate), the good old Periwinkle Bikepath comes to mind. First, because it’s being lengthened, thus becoming a bit more useful for transportation. And second, because to become truly useful it still needs an intersection fix.
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Tags: Albany Transportation System Plan, Lowe's, Ninth Avenue, Periwinkle Bikepath, Queen and Geary
Tags: Albany Transportation System Plan, Lowe's, Ninth Avenue, Periwinkle Bikepath, Queen and Geary
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Nine minutes on the southern Periwinkle Path
Anything new on the southern leg of Albany’s Periwinkle Bikepath? Not really, as I learned when I took a quick look on Saturday.
Tags: Albany, cycling, Periwinkle Bikepath