About once a week or so, the bike takes me west on Queen Avenue and across the tracks south of the Albany railroad yard. Each ride reminds me of a potential hazard left by a paving project in 2024.
It was raining Tuesday when the bike and I came up to the railroad crossing on Queen Avenue. The crossing arms were down and rail cars loaded with lumber blocked the street.
For weeks, drivers have been warned that the railroad crossing on Spring Hill Drive in North Albany will be closed for three days so the Portland & Western can repair a “cracked track.”
This summer, get ready for a big reconstruction project on the west end of Queen Avenue, a key traffic route in Albany.
The Queen Avenue railroad crossing, long the bane of Albany motorists because of its extreme bumpiness, is finally going to get fixed starting next week.
The road hazard that is too hard to fix
If you point out an unexpected road hazard that could hurt or kill somebody, you would think people in charge would do something to fix it. But you’d be wrong.
Tags: bike lanes, bike trap, Queen Avenue, railroad crossing