This is the year the west end of Albany’s Water Avenue will get an overhaul, and I was wondering when this work will resume, and why it didn’t start during January when it was sunny and dry.
Sometimes it’s as though readers’ comments on stories on this site are heavy on complaints. So it seemed, anyway, to Albany resident Jennifer Stuart.
Now that engineers have been hired, there’s a timeline for getting the aging Waverly Drive bridge on Cox Creek replaced.
On this election day in 2024, everybody is going to be interested in how it went and won’t be looking here. So let me report on something slightly less significant.
When a section of Queen Avenue was reopened this week after being torn up for utility work and then repaved, somebody complained in a comment here that the railroad crossing was still as bumpy as always.
On a bike ride Wednesday, I stopped at the bridge across Cox Creek on Waverly Drive. Except that the pavement has become more pitted, little has changed there since the bridge was briefly closed and then restricted to one driving lane in 2005.
That log jam: How long will it last?
The growing log jam under the railroad bridge across the Willamette River in Albany is slightly mysterious in at least a couple of ways.
Tags: log jam, Portland & Western, railroad bridge, Willamette River