The growing log jam under the railroad bridge across the Willamette River in Albany is slightly mysterious in at least a couple of ways.
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’Â 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.
Hub City Experience: Queen Ave. suspense
Waiting at the Queen Avenue railroad crossing is part of life in Albany. It’s an essential element, you might say, of the Hub City Experience.
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