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Vol. 30, No 5
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JANUARY 31 - FEBRUARY 6, 2018
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SERVING NEWBURGH AND NEW WINDSOR
City lays Schumer to CSX: fix RR crossings
plan for
street
paving
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
U.S. Senator Charles Schumer is calling
on CSX Corporation to fix two deteriorated
railroad crossings in the Town of New
Windsor. The two intersections are
riddled with tire-eating potholes.
“These deteriorating rail crossings
in New Windsor routinely cause minor
accidents and it is only a matter of time
before something more severe happens,”
Schumer wrote in a press release on Jan.
24.
By SHANTAL RILEY
[email protected]
The high-traffic intersections are
located at Union and Erie avenues, and
Old Temple Hill Road and Route 300,
the second busiest road in the county.
The town is asking for a permanent,
concrete crossing to be installed at both
busy junctures.
It was non-stop traffic at the Route 300
crossing on Monday. Drivers barreled
downhill toward the Union Avenue
crossing that day, hitting the breaks just
seconds before making a rough pass over
the tracks.
Schumer penned a letter to CSX
President and Chief Executive Officer
James Foote earlier this month. “Recent
reports from the town indicate the
crossings are causing accidents related
to popped tires and severe automobile
damage, as well as risks to cyclists using
the crossing,” Schumer wrote. “As traffic
continues to increase on these roads, it
is important for CSX to meet with New
Windsor officials to develop a permanent
and long-term solution for these decrepit
and dangerous crossings.”
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A good day for racing
The City of Newburgh will lay down a
multi–year plan to pave the city’s ailing
streets. The long-term blueprint will focus
on the city’s most deteriorated roads and
attempt to coordinate the paving with
mandated work on infrastructure.
“We’ll stretch it into 15 years,”
city Department of Public Works
Superintendent George Garrison said at
Newburgh City Hall last Thursday.
Streets scheduled to be paved this year
are in the city’s east end. They include
Grand Street, Liberty Street, Forsythe
Place and Montgomery Street. The entire
length of these streets will be paved,
except Grand Street, which will be paved
from South Street to Marine Drive.
The work will be paid for through
funding from the New York State
Department of Transportation and the
Consolidated Local Street and Highway
Improvement
Program
(CHIPS).
Approximately $700,000 in CHIPS funding
is available to pay for street paving this
year, Garrison said. “The way the CHIPS
money works is we do the work, we pay
upfront for it... then we get reimbursed
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Carl Aiello
Saturday was mild, but there was still enough ice on Orange Lake for ice yachting.
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