The street maintenance projects in the city of Albany just keep coming. Now it’s the turn of 12 blocks of Elm Street to get a new layer of asphalt.
An item in City Manager Peter Troedsson’s Friday report to the Albany City Council prompted me to take an evening bike ride to Industrial Way, where I discovered something I did not know.
Like Albany, the City of Millersburg is considering a local fuel tax to help pay for street maintenance. But in Millersburg, most of the revenue would come from people who live some place else.
While I was looking at Periwinkle Creek near Queen Avenue and Geary Street Monday afternoon, the Albany City Council heard of the tentative schedule for starting a new street maintenance fee and possibly a local gas tax as well.
Albany residents and property owners might want to get ready for the idea of paying a monthly fee for better maintenance of local streets.
Every once in a while, bumping along the broken pavement and potholed streets of old Albany on my bike, I wonder why the people living there or driving on these streets are not complaining?
Albany buying machine to help fix streets
Albany’s public works maintenance crew has been patching some of the worst potholed streets each summer. With a new machine the city council voted Wednesday to buy, they might be able to do a few more in each of the paving seasons to come.
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