Watching a video on urban planning and transportation the other day, I heard the presenter refer to “bike gutters.” What did he mean?
Cycling in the city: Levels of stress
Written November 17th, 2020 by Hasso Hering
There exists, you may be astonished to learn, a regional transportation plan for the “Albany metropolitan area.” And among many other things on its hundreds of pages, it rates existing “bicycle facilities” by their “levels of stress” or LTS.
Site seen as valley’s link to big ports
Written February 7th, 2017 by Hasso Hering
The sprawling Millersburg site where International Paper shut down and demolished the Albany Paper Mill still sits mostly empty, presumably awaiting a buyer. But some local officials have visions of turning the place into an intermodal shipping hub that would bypass the troubled Port of Portland and link the valley to the world.
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Tags: intermodel hub, International Paper, Millersburg site, transportation, Union Pacific
Tags: intermodel hub, International Paper, Millersburg site, transportation, Union Pacific
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City may drop restroom project at depot
Nearly four years ago, the city council decided to seek grants to build a small public restroom outside Albany Station. Now city officials are proposing to give up on the project as too expensive.
Tags: Albany Station, f, federal grants, public restroom, TRAIN STATION, transportation