The gun shop can really re-locate just about anywhere. If the gun shop is the only one in the capital area that sells such merchandise, it won't matter where they re-locate to. There is no other competition.
The adult store is another concern. And I don't really know if Broadway is zoned for an adult anything. I don't know how the city zones such businesses.
why cant Another World go on Jay Street or closer to villa italia......it is after all---art---(in the eye of the beholder, I guess, someone once said)
maybe they could be involve in Art Night???? Let's class them up a little...give them a purpose higher than scum....oh, wait, better idea......right next door to planned parent hood would be much more appropriate......let them fight it out......although it should be lucrative for them both..... (I could go on here)
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You're right the city deems an Adult anything goes into Industrial/light industrial----THAT IS HOW THE CRAPPY ADULT WORLD GOT ONTO THE 'OTHER SIDE OF THE TRACKS' ON THE ROTTERDAM LINE.......
Let's just encourage it now by putting it on the tracks at the bottom of Broadway Hill right next to the troubled Mont Pleasant neighborhood......
maybe all 8 or 10 officers would like to sleep in their squad cars there.....
WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.........
...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
why cant Another World go on Jay Street or closer to villa italia......it is after all---art---(in the eye of the beholder, I guess, someone once said)
maybe they could be involve in Art Night???? Let's class them up a little...give them a purpose higher than scum....oh, wait, better idea......right next door to planned parent hood would be much more appropriate......let them fight it out......although it should be lucrative for them both..... (I could go on here)
Good point! But I'm sure that Villa Italia would want such a business near them. And the city would never do that to them. However, they will stick it to the residence or businesses that they could give two sh**s for!
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
Re Dec. 18 Gazette article, “City’s move to seize 2 sites to begin”: I cannot believe that Schenectady is serious about spending millions of dollars to rehab Erie Boulevard. Is this going to be another State Street fiasco? First, we make the street narrower, then a few years later determine that we need some parking along the street (as we had before) and spend another million to again widen the street. Why do we need a roundabout halfway down the boulevard before we even approach the State Street intersection? If the purpose of the rehab is to benefit the proposed new YMCA/Golub building [at the former Big N site] then why not say so and rehab that area? Leave Erie Boulevard from I-890 to State Street alone, spend fewer millions, and [then] spruce up that area with some landscaping, road work and maybe a median? I have never noticed any traffic problems along lower Erie Boulevard. The wide lanes now allow traffic to move along quickly and at the same time allow parking for the businesses located there. If the purpose of the rehab is to beautify the entrance to Schenectady from I-890, then clean up that area, do some landscaping, etc. and don’t make Erie Boulevard a much-narrower road and add a confusing, ill-advised roundabout. FRANK J. LONGO Rotterdam
Actually, I say the only thing that needs to be changed in this area is to re-designate and clarify the lanes coming from I-890 to Erie Boulevard and to not only clarify where thetraffic from the sde street coming from G.E. is supposed to go, but also maybe make it a sharper turn so that the traffic actually slows down. And the lines there just make it look as if they have the right-of-way.
I worked at GE in downtown Schenectady when the I-890 arterial was being built; it could have been better. But the thing that always puzzled me is why there are only two lanes coming out of GE and Edison Avenue when there is enough room for three and even four as you get on Erie Boulevard. The extra third and fourth lanes would have allowed for the large volume of cars going to Scotia/Glenville over the Western Gateway Bridge and reduced backup of cars heading up Erie Boulevard. Yes, there is westbound traffic that slows down the Scotia-bound traffi c but the extra lanes would reduce traffi c coming out of GE. The four lanes would use some of the parking space on the south side of Erie Boulevard, but there is very little needed at this point. I have never seen it done, but a single traffic light for westbound traffi c on Erie Boulevard that senses backup of Scotia-bound traffic, could be useful to those coming out of GE, as well as those heading to Erie Boulevard from the eastbound lane of I-890. All of this would be very cheap in comparison to a traffic circle. I always regret not speaking up about the arterial design when [it was] reviewed many years ago. GEORGE SCHMIDT III Niskayuna
I couldn’t agree more with Mr. [Frank J.] Longo’s Dec. 24 letter, “Erie Boulevard is fine just the way it is.” Why is the city of Schenectady and the state of New York putting money into putting a roundabout on Erie Boulevard? One might ask, “a roundabout to where?” I have traveled Erie Boulevard twice daily for more than 30 years and have never come across a backup of traffic at the site of the proposed roundabout. Is this really an attempt to eliminate the two businesses [Another World and Special Arms and Munitions] — which would need to be seized? It is absolute foolishness to spend money on something that doesn’t need money spent. Put that money to a better use. Renovate some of the empty buildings on Erie Boulevard, but don’t spend money on a roundabout to nowhere. JUDITH PECK Rotterdam
It makes folks drive other routes and will slow down the downtown traffic,,,there by making a nicer/easier walk for the students at SCCC music program when they have to walk downtown for their classes......
...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
It makes folks drive other routes and will slow down the downtown traffic,,,there by making a nicer/easier walk for the students at SCCC music program when they have to walk downtown for their classes......
But it's not even along the main route. If they moved it to the State Street / Erie Boulevard corner, then I would agree.
But it's not even along the main route. If they moved it to the State Street / Erie Boulevard corner, then I would agree.
this time I will interpret...I think senders meant that tongue in check! I think!
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
Narrowing Erie Blvd. will kill business in downtown Sch’dy
Being in downtown Schenectady since 1941, we have witnessed downtown in its heyday, its decline and its many attempts at rebirth. These last few years have seen a rapid growth, and we are thrilled with the many new restaurants and businesses that have come downtown. Unfortunately, the proposed redesign of Erie Boulevard would be a step backward. Erie Boulevard needs to be cleaned up, but this project is a waste of taxpayer dollars. We do not need a roundabout that serves only to put more businesses out by limiting the flow of traffi c. Although we may not all agree with the goods they sell, Another World brings business into the city, collects sales tax and pays its property taxes. Honestly, until our local planners made a big deal about this store, I never knew what it sold. In attempt to wage war against this business, our planners will be again spending our tax dollars to narrow the streets in downtown and make Erie Boulevard as non-functional a drive as State Street has become. (Try making a left onto Erie Boulevard from State Street after 5 p.m.) If a median is erected on Erie Boulevard, we might as well put a gas station on the corner because the traffi c bottleneck will drain gas tanks. The fun will truly begin when Price Chopper opens its new offices on Nott Street. Let’s look back to when downtown was happening. State Street was a six-lane road, with parking on each side! Today, when every household has up to three cars in their driveway, we are making it even more difficult for folks and their families to drive downtown by limiting traffic to one lane. I field calls every day from our customers requesting a route to our store that skips State Street all together. I can’t even being to imagine what it will be like when Erie Boulevard becomes two lanes. City planners need to start thinking about function, and not merely aesthetics. Wider sidewalks are great, but if traffi c cannot flow downtown, you will continue to find those sidewalks empty. Years ago, we had narrower sidewalks, filled with the bustle of a thriving downtown — why? Because you could actually drive downtown and park your car. What a concept, If you make it so difficult to get to a business, folks will continue to do what they have for years; going to the mall, where parking is abundant and you can get there via expressway. NORMAN AND LINDA TOLOKONSKY Schenectady The writers are proprietors of Rudnick’s.
Erie Boulevard plan will be bad for business downtown
The goals for improving Erie Boulevard, as stated by the Capital District Transportation Planning Committee, are a more drivable, business- and pedestrianfriendly gateway into downtown, and to stimulate future business growth in our community. Yes, it’s pedestrian-friendly. The plan expands the already wide and little used sidewalks. The artist’s concept looks like a new park in the center of town [Nov. 30 Gazette]. It appears there is such emphasis on pedestrians and ambience that the other goals of being business-friendly, and to stimulate future business growth, are totally lost! No, it’s not more drivable! How do you curve and drastically reduce the size of this busy traffic artery and make it more drivable? Why do we need a traffic circle when the side branches serve only a small side street and a private parking lot? How do employees and customers get to the envisioned future business growth with a much smaller road? Most important, where do the business customers park? There isn’t enough parking now, and the plan appears to reduce parking. The pedestrians, employees and customers for these growing businesses are not going to drop out of the sky. They need to park, and the plan is totally dysfunctional without providing more parking. Some suggestions: Remove some of the least desirable buildings to make parking lots; expand on-street parking rather than sidewalks and green space; build an access road along the railroad tracks all the way from GE to the old Wallace Armer to connect existing parking, and make parking of the unused green space behind several of the buildings. My family and I have been active in downtown business for 70 years, including service on the Chamber of Commerce transportation committee. The plan, in its present form, will not encourage business development. Reduced parking will cause businesses to fail. Reduced traffi c flow may even crimp the growth on State Street. There is a huge gap between the plan design and the stated goals. CARL F. LISS Schenectady The writer is president of Carl Liss Appliances Inc .
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