Governor Andrew Cuomo just wrapped up his State of the State speech and budget presentation. The address was something of a shotgun blast of proposals: a high-level overview that touched on everything from tourism promotions to criminal justice reforms. He appealed to the image many New Yorkers’ have of themselves: that we persevere through tough […]
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Road and bridge funding sought by engineers and government leaders
New York’s infrastructure is crummy and getting worse, as anyone who drives on the state’s roads probably already realizes. The American Society of Civil Engineers gives the state’s infrastructure a C- in a report card it released this morning (the report is attached at the bottom of this post). But the grade is boosted by […]
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Gillibrand calls for funding change for bridge repairs
Elected officials have spent quite a bit of time over the last few years trying to draw attention to bridges that need repair. Late last month, for example, a group of Republican Assembly members joined Monroe County Executive Maggie Brooks and Gates Supervisor Mark Assini next to the I-390 bridge over Trolley Boulevard in Gates. […]
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Taming East Rochester’s main drag
In East Rochester, the stretch of West Commercial Street that runs past the Piano Works mall can feel more like a runway than a village street. Years ago, the state built an off-ramp from Interstate 490 that dumps vehicles right onto West Commercial; the ramp opens up into a wide, four-lane road. Many drivers don’t […]
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Bike boulevards for Rochester
Some Rochester streets are friendly to cyclists. They have bike lanes or good shoulders, they aren’t heavily traveled, and their intersections are relatively easy to pass through. Other streets are inherently difficult — even dangerous — for cyclists. They may have heavy traffic or little room between lanes of moving cars and lines of parked […]
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Fairport meeting to focus on sharing the road with cyclists
This is a corrected version of the post. As a triathlete, Mary Eggers logs plenty of time on her bicycle. But after her friend, Fairport teacher Heather Boyum, was killed last month while riding in Penfield, she’s been hesitant to ride on the road. It didn’t help that, shortly after that tragedy, a friend was […]
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Roads to nowhere?
Roads, unquestionably, tie a community together. And no more striking example exists of the division between city and county in this community, say Democrats in the county legislature, than the lej’s decision to stop pavement-marking services in the city. “It’s more evidence of the county and the suburbs basically treating the city as a […]
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Lost highways
Motorists have reason to celebrate — at least in the short term. As part of County Executive Jack Doyle’s proposed 2003 budget cuts, the county will no longer pay towns to resurface, sweep, and otherwise maintain county roads. If approved by the Legislature this fall, the move would save the county almost $1.5 million next […]
