Every once in a while I find myself on the northern-most leg of the Periwinkle Bikepath in Albany. It usually looks like a sad place, as it did last Monday.
Every once in a while I find myself on the northern-most leg of the Periwinkle Bikepath in Albany. It usually looks like a sad place, as it did last Monday.
Chances are you have been counted if you walked or biked along the length of Albany’s Dave Clark Path in the last few days.
For years, bike riders using Albany’s Periwinkle Bike path to go across town faced a slight dilemma: how best to cross the intersection of Queen Avenue and Geary Street.
It won’t be easy or quick to “vacate” — meaning to abandon and close — an offshoot of the Periwinkle Bikepath as recommended by the Albany Parks, Recreation and Tree Commission.
If you occasionally find it convenient to walk or ride your bike on the historic railroad right-of-way between Hill and Oak streets, you might want to use it more often and defend your right to do so.
As expected, it didn’t take long for vandals to start undoing the volunteer work of Albany’s “graffiti chasers” on the Periwinkle Bikepath behind Lowe’s, near Ninth Avenue.
Not just another day on Albany paths
Friday’s bike ride along the Albany riverfront was totally routine except for one brief interruption. On the Dave Clark Path, someone had left what you see in the photo above. This made me stop and dig out my phone for this: The “guys” I mentioned in the video turned out to be three ladies out […]
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