The idea of building a roughly eight-mile bike path between Albany and Corvallis has been kicking around ever since the Benton County Commissioners mentioned it in 2003. Now the county and ODOT are once again hoping to determine a route the path could take.
They have tried this before. But while short sections have been built, earlier ideas for routing the major sections were never firmed up.
In a flyer about the project, the Oregon Department of Transportation and Benton County say they are getting ready to “engage community members in person and online to share project information and gather community input on how to make it easier to walk, bike and roll between Corvallis and Albany.”…