But the new Autobody shop and wonderful truck garage are GREAT! Don't forget an empire full of municipal subsidized housing workers to keep the maniacal savage welfarites from going insane and murdering the middle class if they don't get their freebies. So the middle class taxpayers can shove it where the sun don't shine, thanks to the democraps and their underclass poor who steal from us night and day at the point of a tax gun.
They will find a way to make us take mass transport anyway so they think. The gurus, priests and witches have all concocted a strange brew of social change and we get to be cooked in the their experimental giant kettle and fed to the underclass while rich millionaires with free deals and breaks sip Champagne and chuckle at our fate.
"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."
Editorial: Fix Schenectady roads, even it takes a tax hike Thursday, May 19, 2011
Anyone who’s done any driving around Schenectady this spring hardly needed Sunday’s Gazette story to tell them that the city’s roads are in atrocious shape. And given the weekend’s other non-news news story — Saturday’s, about the city having the region’s highest tax burden — the idea of raising taxes to pay for the fix these awful roads need would appear to be a nonstarter. But maybe not. Consider that the condition of more than half of the city’s 53 miles of road was rated either “poor” or “fair-minus” by the city’s own engineer. (He was probably inclined to understate the severity of the problem for political reasons.) Consider also that roads in that condition cost motorists money — by chewing up their tires, throwing their wheels out of alignment, snapping their axles, wrecking their racks, etc. Finally, consider that pothole-ridden roads are an accident waiting to happen, as they encourage motorists to drive like they were skiing the giant slalom. So any savings taxpayers might realize by the city taking the slow road to fixing what should have been fixed all along will really be illusory if they have to spend more in car repairs, body work and medical care. As the headline in Sunday’s story indicated, the city’s road situation is a crisis; and the business-as-usual approach officials seem inclined to adopt for dealing with it — which will take at least a decade — is unacceptable............................>>>>........................>>>>.........................http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2011/may/19/519_prrinrt/
Another tax hike? You're kidding right? Stop wasting the current oppressive taxes on arts and nonprofit give aways. Schenectady taxes are the highest in the area and 12th highest in the Nation. The Gazetto finally discovered, after 8 years of a news blackout, that City roads are impassible.
Their hilarious poll has 66% rating the City roads terrible. The worst roads in Upstate New York. Instead of dumping Metrograft money into another governmental gin mill use it to repave City moonscapes. The City squandered all its Federal grant money. 35 straight years of DEM fiscal management has caught up with City roads. Now you can't even go home to Clifton Park without hitting cavity popping craters.
Streets in Woodlawn rank among the worst in all of Schenectady
Re May 15 article, “City roads’ condition critical”: I feel reporter Kathleen Moore was misled on several points by City Engineer Paul Cassillo. For example, he “forgot” [to mention] the situation in Woodlawn, especially the one on Coniston Avenue and King’s Road. Several years ago, an award was given to a sewer contractor to hook up to the main from the side streets. As time went by, it was realized that several of the sidestreets’ septic systems had not been hooked up to the main. Another contractor was hired to hook up the “forgotten” ones. This left Coniston Avenue in a dangerous situation. This street is over sand and was left in a very “bouncy” condition, which was very dangerous. To fix this, the city made arrangements with the contractor to drill holes and pump dry concrete in to “even” the street. The drilled holes were not sealed in any way, and the concrete hardened, which has made the situation even worse. The city received a grant to put sidewalks on the east side of King’s Road, rather than on the west side as the comprehensive plan recommended; and there would have been enough money left over to repave Coniston Avenue and King’s Road from Albany Street to High Bridge Road. In its wisdom, the city listened to folks from Hamilton Hill, who had some cracks in their sidewalks. So our beloved City Council took the money from the above projects and Hamilton Hill got the sidewalks. I can name a dozen streets in Woodlawn that have not have any attention in years. Take a drive east on Albany Street to the Niskayuna line, from Van Zandt Street, and tell me that it is in better condition than [Cassillo’s] No. 1 selection [for worst street], Union Street. The traffic on Albany Street has doubled (if not more) since State Street was redesigned by CTDA. Its a two-lane road with no sidewalks. People are avoiding Route 5, and its crazy design, to come down Albany and Watt streets to reach the Crosstown. [Do any] one City Council candidates want to ride with me to learn just how bad the streets are? They will think they are back in the ‘30s, when most of our streets were last upgraded.
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Another tax hike? You're kidding right? Stop wasting the current oppressive taxes on arts and nonprofit give aways. Schenectady taxes are the highest in the area and 12th highest in the Nation. The Gazetto finally discovered, after 8 years of a news blackout, that City roads are impassible. 
