Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

I have been into Vale in the past year --- I have seen where the roadway is deteriorating --- that is
why the work is being done.   You can also go to city hall and look at the plans --- along with the
supporting documentation to show the poor condition it was in BEFORE the work started and what
it will look like when completed.  

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Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

The fact is that similar projects in other urban areas have led to REDUCED crime.  

The trail through Vale offers great benefits ---
#3) it will allow good, decent people to USE THE PARK ... and Vale is not just a cemetery but a park .. it
was originally designed to function as cemetery and park.    Many studies have shown that the more people
use an area ... the crime rate drops.

Quoted from mikechristine1

People who don't own homes and don't pay taxes won't understand this.  

But when you own a house and the house needs things, e.g., repair/replace a furnace, replace a roof, put in a new driveway, those things are necessities and those things get done before you put in a pretty trail in the back yard.   In a bad economy, you simply do not put that trail in the back yard (or deck, patio, pool, etc).  A trail is nice, but what happens if you spend money on a trail instead of replacing your roof?

Likewise, when the taxes are high and the government is in a big debt, a bike trail is NOT a necessity, there is not even the remotest need for a bike trail.  It's "nice" but the state is in major financial problems.

Unfortunately, people who don't pay the bills figure there is an endless supply of money.  Classic analogy, many years ago you could find apartments "with heat included" and how many tenants never thought twice about turning up the thermostat.  People who live in another's house and don't have the National Grid bill in their own name, don't care about how much money it costs, they are not paying, thus they don't think twice about jacking the thermostat up to 75.  When people pay their own heat, then they cut back.  

Another good analogy.  People on medicaid will usually go to the emergency room for cuts and scrapes and fevers of 100 and go in the evening and weekends.  (true even when they can be enrolled in a plan with which they have a primary care doctor to call during the day).  Since they are not paying the ER visit, since they don't even so much as have a $50 co-pay for going to the ER, they don't think twice to mis-using the tax dollars.   Using the ER costs several hundred dollars where going to the doctor may be less than $100 for visit.    Those of us who pay premiums and have deductibles and/or co-pays might have a fever of 104 and we will think, "its' going to cost us" so we intelligently and wisely choose to call our primary doctor's office and go there  and pay our $20 co-pay.  We know the value of the dollar.  

THose of us who pay taxes and see the HUGE financial crisis the state is in, we know that there are necessities that must be paid for and that there simply is no money for bike trails.  

I wonder where people think that the money is supposed to come from to pay for bike trails??????  Where is the money tree???    

And are bike trails going to reduce crime in the city?    Is spending tax money on bike trails going to reduce the high property taxes or the high taxes in the state?  Is spending money on bike trails going to result in better maintained watermains in the city?   Etc.

Quoted from benny salami

More revisionism. Under the REPS, Metrograft was established and the only jobs worth talking about State jobs came to Schenectady. That got some non-street people over there. GE was never leaving town and the current battery plant is a Federal green program.

     The local DEMS have increased taxes, hired incompetents, refuse to address Countywide crime and gang issues, and can't even site a County nursing home THAT THEY HAVE BONDED! The sooner we eliminate this idiotic County Legislature and move to a Board of Supervisors-the better.

Quoted from tdonovan

That is precisely why we need a GREAT candidate to step up for County Leg. Someone with "integrity" and the stamina to withstand the trials and tribulations without waver.  ....... will someone PLEASE step up to the plate!!!!! ????

Quoted from GrahamBonnet

DV is the kind of guy who puts in a swimming pool when he has holes in his roof, and borrows to do it. OHH! That's right! He doesn't have a house!

Quoted from Kevin March

Ron, I'm sorry, but even you must accept that the exact opposite of this is also true.  Every study ever done shows that if the crime rate rises, then less people use the area.  There needs to be proof of a reduction in crime before the people will begin to use this again.  I suggest that maybe they start with reducing the crime in the park, but this is something that they really need to do all through the city, not just in one area.  Heck, when you can't even walk down the miracle mile without the possibility of being mugged or shot, what does that say for the rest of the city?  By the way, have they found any of the murderers in the city as of late, or are they still running free?

Quoted from tdonovan

That is precisely why we need a GREAT candidate to step up for County Leg. Someone with "integrity" and the stamina to withstand the trials and tribulations without waver.  ....... will someone PLEASE step up to the plate!!!!! ????

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

make Schenectady County the most biker and walker friendly county in the country.

Quoted from tdonovan

That is precisely why we need a GREAT candidate to step up for County Leg. Someone with "integrity" and the stamina to withstand the trials and tribulations without waver.  ....... will someone PLEASE step up to the plate!!!!! ????

Quoted from littlesal

having a hard time finding candidates tracey? dont forget you need two candidates for dis. 4 not just one.  Oh wait you probably wont run anybody against ang or tony j anyway, since you guys are all so close    

Quoted from DemocraticVoiceOfReason

I have attended a few conferences on the issue and can assure you that the research backs up my
statement.    As more "good people" populate and use an area ... the "bad people" leave and crime
falls.  
Maybe, you should do something to help reduce the crime rate .. instead of just being an arm-chair
quarterback.