This is all smoke and mirrors-minus the mirrors. Nothing is happening. Businesses and jobs are fleeing horrible Downtown and this County in droves. There is only one person running for County that makes any sense-Brad Littlefield.
First published in print: Tuesday, November 3, 2009
SCHENECTADY -- The $14 million Erie Boulevard reconstruction project is moving forward, as the city is poised to approve the project's environmental review next week.
The City Council heard from designer Clough, Harbour & Associates at its committee meeting Monday night about the environment review, which landscape architect Scott Lewendon said the state's Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation found would have no significant impact on historic resources..............>>>>..........>>>>..........
What is wrong with the dimwits running the city? This project is not needed and is going to require money to complete that the city doesn't have.
You got an hour? Start with all tax and spend DEMS. This is a job killing, revenue killing project that will mean a massive traffic jams leaving the GE Works. The State St mess was nothing compared to this.
And not one person on the rubber stamp City Council will oppose it? This will cost CITY Taxpayers at least $1 MILLION.
Instead of wasting the money on Erie Blvd, and unneeded project, why not use it to improve the infrastructure that's falling apart like the roads, sewer, water, and to fix some of the eye sores around the city?
All "stimulus" money was wasted on a phony County tax cut. It's supposed to be for job creation or infrastructure repair.
This horrible project should have been axed by Mark B-if he was serious about tax relief-which he is not. He is happy to keep Stratton's proposal alive despite the huge cost to City taxpayers. Plant some trees and be done with it.
Maybe they have stimulus money. Erie Blvd is a dump.
So is the other end of State St. (toward the college - and above Nott Terrace). So too is Brandywine corridor. So too is Mt. Pleasant. So too is becoming Bellevue. Barren wastelands riddled with crime. Why force a project that has no real immediate impact on Schenectady's economy? Why disturb existing businesses (in a well lit, low crime area) and force them out when there's other areas where people are losing their homes, have no place left to shop, residents feel unsafe walking and vandalism is rampant?
All "stimulus" money was wasted on a phony County tax cut. It's supposed to be for job creation or infrastructure repair.
This horrible project should have been axed by Mark B-if he was serious about tax relief-which he is not. He is happy to keep Stratton's proposal alive despite the huge cost to City taxpayers. Plant some trees and be done with it.
Stimulus money? Are they kidding me? The top economic professors are saying that with our huge deficit and the failure of the bush/obama bail-out and stimulus pkg, this country is headed for a hard core depression.
As far as the city of schenectady goes, no matter how much money you pump into shinning sh*t....it's still sh*t! The scumbags still walk the street, selling sex, drugs and guns. Urinating and spitting all over the sidewalks. And let's not forget the panhandlers. Or the corrupt dysfunctional school system. Then there's the line at the dss bldg where many who receive these tax sucking benefits, live in NYC but come up here for their checks. YUP....thank God for those tax sucking non-profits, huh? What a joke.
It is a scumbag, crime ridden city with taxes out of control. Ya know.....a nice place to live and raise a family. IMHO
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
The saddest part of this is that Stratton keeps calling it a "high tech corridor". LOL!
They moved a welfare office down there. SOS also cheered when KEM Cleaners left the City-said he needed more parking. For what? Like Obama he doesn't care about destroying all small businesses.
Stimulus money? Are they kidding me? The top economic professors are saying that with our huge deficit and the failure of the bush/obama bail-out and stimulus pkg, this country is headed for a hard core depression.
As far as the city of schenectady goes, no matter how much money you pump into shinning sh*t....it's still sh*t! The scumbags still walk the street, selling sex, drugs and guns. Urinating and spitting all over the sidewalks. And let's not forget the panhandlers. Or the corrupt dysfunctional school system. Then there's the line at the dss bldg where many who receive these tax sucking benefits, live in NYC but come up here for their checks. YUP....thank God for those tax sucking non-profits, huh? What a joke.
It is a scumbag, crime ridden city with taxes out of control. Ya know.....a nice place to live and raise a family.
Wow BT--maybe if your day job doesn't work out you could wrtie cards for Hallmark.
SCHENECTADY Erie Blvd. store will be moved Adult shop owner relents in battle over road plans BY KATHLEEN MOORE Gazette Reporter
The last holdout in the bitter two-year battle over Erie Boulevard has waved the white flag. Rocco Palmer, owner of Another World, has agreed to accept a “fair deal” to relocate his adult business out of downtown. “We’re willing to negotiate,” he said on Tuesday. Two years ago, Palmer organized almost every business on lower Erie Boulevard to oppose a $14 million redevelopment project that called for the demolition of Palmer’s store. He promised to fight the city in court when city leaders threatened to use eminent domain to take Another World. Eventually the city cut deals that satisfied most of the business owners, but Mayor Brian U. Stratton wouldn’t budge on his plan to knock down Another World. At first, it had to go to make room for a roundabout. Then, when the roundabout was dropped from the plan to please the rest of the business owners, city officials said Another World had to be demolished so that a side street intersection could be widened and straightened. Palmer offered to give up the small portion of his building that stood in the way of the intersection plan. Then the city insisted that the rest of the building had to go, too, to make room for a park. Palmer still calls the entire situation “ridiculous” and says that the city just wants to get rid of a business that sells sexrelated merchandise. ........................>>>>..................>>>>...............http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r00900&AppName=1
Erie Boulevard project to start SCHENECTADY — The first step of the Erie Boulevard repaving project will begin Monday with National Grid replacing its underground utilities. The city encourages utility companies to schedule their upgrades and repair work before road work, rather than ripping it up a few months or years after fresh pavement is laid. National Grid’s work will take three months and may include lane closures. However, the company will keep the lanes open in both directions during peak traffic hours: 6 to 8:30 a.m. and 3 to 7 p.m. The work will replace conduits and manholes and upgrade equipment to prepare for future growth along the corridor. Current customers there will also see reliability improve, according to the company.
This is all smoke and mirrors-minus the mirrors. Nothing is happening. Businesses and jobs are fleeing horrible
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You got an hour? Start with all tax and spend DEMS. This is a job killing, revenue killing project that will mean a massive traffic jams leaving the GE Works. The State St mess was nothing compared to this. 
IMHO
