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Riverfront project includes work on crossings

Written November 20th, 2021 by Hasso Hering
Comments: 13 responses.

Plans for Albany’s riverfront call for improving crossings on the Water Avenue rail line, opening new ones and closing others. But the new or improved crossings won’t have to be protected with automatic arms.

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If you like trains, here’s something for you

Written October 20th, 2021 by Hasso Hering
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There’s a little paved path across the old Oregon Electric Railway tracks at Burkhart Street in Albany. It’s on one of my bike routes through town, and I spent a few minutes there on October 8, trying to decipher the lettering that graffiti artists had left on the cars.

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A crossing puzzle: No pedestrians?

Written April 19th, 2018 by Hasso Hering
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  If that’s not a pedestrian crossing, what else could it possibly be? That was my question when I saw this sign Wednesday at the newly completed railroad crossing at Hill Street and Water Avenue in Albany.

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A potential danger? Not really

Written April 5th, 2014 by Hasso Hering
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Take a look at this railroad grade crossing, newly rebuilt and opened last week on Albany’s Main Street S.E. When I went by there on March 28, the day the crossing was reopened, the alignment of the new sidewalk struck me as unusual. It goes around the gates, so when the arms are down the […]

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