A Facebook post by the Albany Parks Department sent me to the Periwinkle Bikepath Friday to see what volunteers had done to clean up recent work by taggers on what might be the city’s most notorious graffiti wall.
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 […]
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.
Bikeway crossing at Queen and Geary: How?
Albany’s Periwinkle Bikepath through the center of town was completed in 1977. Half a century later, the city and state are cooperating to find a safer or more convenient way for people, especially bike riders, to get across the intersection of Queen Avenue and Geary Street.
Tags: Community Paths Program, Periwinkle Bikepath, Queen and Geary