Santiam Highway

An Albany corner: Update on construction

Written March 16th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 16 responses.

Even as a new Mexican restaurant takes shape behind it, the big sign at the corner of Santiam Highway and Bain Street still advertises the place that closed there some five years ago.

Posted in: Commentary
Tags: Albany business, Albany restaurants, Mexican restaurants, Rancho la Hacienda, Santiam and Bain, Santiam Highway

Changes coming on Santiam and Pacific

Written January 14th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 16 responses.

I took this photo on a Sunday in February 2020, after ODOT announced plans to work on the busy Albany intersection of Waverly Drive and Santiam Highway. Now the department is getting ready to carry out that and another Albany project at an estimated combined cost of nearly $6 million.

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: Airport Road, Albany highway projects, highway work, ODOT, Pacific Boulevard, raised median, Santiam Highway, Waverly and U.S. 20

At Santiam and Bain, construction under way

Written September 9th, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 15 responses.

Four years after the last restaurant there closed, a new one is under construction at the corner of Bain Street and Santiam Highway S.E.

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Tags: Albany restaurants, Bain Street, Rancho la Hacienda, Santiam Highway

Seen up close, those sewer grates are safe

Written January 9th, 2021 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 5 responses.

Friday’s short video tour of bike lanes along Highways 20 and 99E (Albany’s Santiam Highway and Pacific Boulevard) caused a least a couple of viewers to worry about the sewer grates as they flashed by.

Posted in: Commentary
Tags: Albany highways, bike lanes, cycling, Pacific Boulevard, Santiam Highway, storm sewer grates

List of highway projects raises questions

Written February 4th, 2020 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 4 responses.

ODOT has invited the public to review a draft of its 2021-24 transportation improvement plan, including numerous projects in the Albany area. On a rainy winter evening, what could be a better use of time than to read and wonder about some of the items on the list?

Posted in: Commentary, News
Tags: I-5 crashes, ODOT transportation plan, Queen Avenue crossing, Santiam Highway, STIP, Waverly signal

Crosswalk alert, especially June 9

Written June 5th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

Comments: 3 responses.

Some people call it a “crosswalk sting.” But it’s not much of a sting because the public is being warned ahead of time, through channels like this and with signs at the scene. The Albany police, who will conduct this operation at two city crosswalks on Tuesday, June 9, call it a “targeted cross enforcement […]

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Tags: Albany police, crosswalk enforcement, Santiam Highway, Waverly Drive

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