First shadow...we don't need pitchforks...we need VOICES! Where are they? Again..where is the outrage?
Second, someone should ask the council wo/men if they are already sending out bids for the Erie Blvd makeover. I believe they are. So I guess this move will happen and is actually in the process as we speak, post and type.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
I fear that the residents are tired of trying to talk to those politicians who are in power as they know that our officials will only do what they want regardless of what the people want. As you all know our elite arrogant officials feel that we are too stupid to think for ourselves or know what's good for us.
The people in Schdy want to fix up Erie Blvd and make it a show case entrance to the city. What they don't want is a round-a-bout that costs 14 million to control a traffic problem that doesn't exist and that's a huge waste of money that's needed elsewhere.
I think they are 'hoping' for a traffic problem in the future........that would be walking for the college kids.....no one wants to live in the city except the college kids......
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Erie Boulevard business owners and employees continue attending Schenectady City Council meetings to voice protests about the $14 million reconstruction of the city's busiest crosstown route. Most complaints are targeted at a roundabout which the protestors insist will clog traffic, cause accidents and cost them customers.
Carl Liss and his family owned and operated an appliance firm on the boulevard for about a half-century. Liss, in his '80s, is so disturbed at the proposal he drove all the way down from Bolton Landing to speak.
He triggered some laughter by playing off the old saw, "Putting a square peg in a round hole." In an obvious poke at the roundabout, Liss said, "This Erie Boulevard project is a case of putting a round hole around a square peg."
There is Erie traffic, coming and leaving GE for Saratoga and Montgomery County. No one wants to live in the City/County and pay these absurd taxes.
The funniest/saddest part of this needless Stratton Circle to Nowhere is Stratton's Erie Advisory Committee. Made up entirely of rubber stamp City Council people, City Hall hacks and not ONE Erie Boulevard business. Not one Erie Boulevard business person supports this insane plan which also has no community support. Yes, plant some trees on the wide sidewalks but the circle and insane traffic calming nonsense must go. Stopping this would save the City $700,000 PLUS and eliminate the need for Stratton's property tax increase.
There should be an Erie blvd committee made up of citizens to discuss and gather in-put from the people. But unfortunately I don't ever see that happening with the city council OR the county legislatures. And further more, Erie blvd has been doing just fine for these last decades. In fact, when GE was booming, everyone did just fine. So now with our present declining economy, ONE WOULD THINK, that our city/county officials would put all costly developments on hold...a moratorium if you will, until this economy levels out.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
It is too bad that government is inherently devoid of the commonest of common sense. The monies that are granted should be sunk into repairing EXISTING infrastructure like roads, water and sewer lines, etc. Rather than trying to put a copper roof and a pretty but useless cupola on a house with a cracked foundation, this would make sense. But the CDTA and the governmental powers that be would rather create new and elaborate designs that would cost us all MORE than the already overburdened infrastructure we currently have. There are not not enough people with common sense and there are too many special interests involved.
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
It is too bad that government is inherently devoid of the commonest of common sense
I think you stated the problem.......there needs to be more than the "atleast he/she had common sense"-----the city doesn't want the least or the common........JMHO
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Forget the roundabout! We don’t want it and we don’t need it! Why can’t you just set up radar on Erie Boulevard? You can write tickets till the cows come home, and that will put money in the city’s pocket. If you write a few million tickets and take the money earmarked for the roundabout and put it in the bank, you don’t have to raise taxes. (I know the money was supposed to be for the roundabout, but government always takes money from here and uses there!) Most of all, don’t make the mistakes that were made in the past, i.e. narrowing it, widening it, narrowing it again and adding an S-curve to slow the flow of traffic, spending a million dollars to build it, then selling it for a buck — nonsense that taxpayers are fed up with! Please do the right thing, Mr. Mayor, you have so far!
Nobody wants it except the horrible Mayor over there. He tried to sneak a pay increase, extra phony travel expenses and got caught! The treasurer and horrible Mayor should both be resigning today. No wonder they refused to put the joke City Budget on pdf format for the sheeple to see.
5% ($700K) of the $14M projected cost of the "BS Circle to Nowhere" to be paid by city residents could be saved if this project was cancelled. It is true that the federal and state governments have allocated the funding for the majority of the project costs. However, given the fiscal challenges faced by both, the approval of these funds could be withdrawn. Further, the city residents and business owners located on Erie Boulevard have been unanimously opposed to the construction of the traffic rotary and assert that there is no legitimate need for it.
The $700,000 saved could be applied to the 2009 City of Schenectady Budget to either eliminate the need for a property tax increase and/or used to repave roads and repair infrastructure. I question if the federal and state governments would provide funding, either equal to the initial commitment or partial, to be applied to general road and infrastructure maintenance (e.g., repaving).
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There is Erie traffic, coming and leaving GE for Saratoga and Montgomery County. No one wants to live in the City/County and pay these absurd taxes. 
