The Express Newspaper – December 25, 2014
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Central Ave. to Open “Sometime During the Week of Dec. 15th” – by Gerstenberger, Gowett & Coreno
MECHANICVILLE DECEMBER 3 - Commissioner Higgins stated at the city council meeting that the bridge is about 1 week behind due to the weather. Saratoga County Department of Public Works informed him that because of recent temperatures under 45 degrees the concrete could not cure.
Read this and other Town and City news in the Dec. 11th issue of the Express.
Central Ave. Bridge Slated to Open December 12th….
The Central Ave. bridge is slated to be open and completed by December 12
Route 40 Bridge Now Open – By C. Barton
The new replacement bridge on Route 40 in the Town of Schaghticoke opened up on Friday November 14th. The new bridge is 717 feet long and the entire project, which includes the work on Route 40, as it approaches the bridge from both directions, is 2,280 feet long.
Read the entire article in the Nov. 27th edition of the Express.
Mechanicville City Hall News – By Gerstenberger, Gowett & Coreno
At the City Council meeting three recommendations by The Mechanicville City Fire Department are being brought to attention after an audit by the NYS Comptroller\'92s Office. Section 6 of the point system is being amended from the service award program. This clarifies exactly how many points are earned for responding to a minimum of 10% Fire Department calls in the year. Resolution 93-14 clarified \'93Chief\'92s Call\'94 as any detail intended to assist an emergency/rescue squad. Said points are the result of a retirement program, LOSAP, for local volunteer firefighters. Stephen Higgins was inadvertently not given the correct number of points for service in 2012. He was awarded his service credit was included in the Volunteer Service award Program for the year 2012
Read the entire article in the Oct. 13 issue of the Express
Route 40 Bridge in Schaghticoke to Close for Two Weekends Next Month
Motorists are advised that bridge carrying Route 40 (South Main Street) over the Hoosic River in Schaghticoke, Rensselaer County, will be closed to traffic during two weekends in September as part of the New York State Department of Transportation’s bridge replacement project there.
The bridge will close during the weekends of Sept. 5 and Sept. 12. On both weekends, the bridge will close at10 p.m. on Friday night and reopen the following Monday by 6 a.m.
The closures are necessary to allow adequate room to pour concrete for the decks of the new bridge, which is being constructed immediately adjacent to the old bridge.
A detour will be posted sending motorists to Route 67 into Mechanicville, then onto Routes 4 and 32 and then to Stillwater Bridge Road (Rensselaer County Route 125). Local motorists should follow the posted detour or otherwise use alternate routes.
Motorists are reminded that fines are doubled for speeding in a work zone. In accordance with the Work Zone Safety Act of 2005, convictions of two or more speeding violations in a work zone could result in the suspension of an individual’s driver’s license. It is imperative that motorists remember to drive carefully through this construction zone, for their own safety and the safety of workers.
For up-to-date travel information, call 511 or visit www.511NY.org.
Mechanicville Bridge Project – by H. Wessell
BALLSTON SPA, April 8– Saratoga County Public Works Commissioner Keith Manz, appearing before the County Public Works Committee, explained that the last hurdle remaining has been surmounted, and the County can accept federal and state funding for the US 4 bridge over the Anthony Kill, on North Central Avenue.
The $3.3 million project (its costs escalated due to issues of old industrial soil pollution) will be funded 80 percent by federal money, 15 percent from the state; and the local share, 5 percent local. It will start in about a month, and be finished in late fall, he expected. Sidewalk and drainage improvements will be included.
He explained that action was now possible, because the County had finally gotten over the hurdle of just one remaining easement request. That, he stressed is important because there "are a number of other bridges in and around the City of Mechanicville."
Read the entire article in the April 17th issue of the Express.
Truck Detour Begins Monday, April 14 N. Troy/Waterford Bridge
WATERFORD - Motorists are advised that a truck detour will be in place beginning Monday, April 14, to allow for maintenance painting of the 126th Street Bridge carrying Route 4 over the Hudson River between North Troy/Lansingburgh and Waterford.
The truck detour will not apply to vehicles less than 9 feet, 6 inches wide and shorter than 12 feet in height. This includes all school buses.
Truckers can use the 112th Street Bridge, which carries Route 470 over the Hudson River, as an alternate route. The truck detour will be in place around the clock, and is expected to end on July 31.
Additionally, the bridge will be reduced to one alternating lane of traffic, controlled by flaggers, during weekdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., until early May.
Motorists are reminded that fines are doubled for speeding in a work zone. In accordance with the Work Zone Safety Act of 2005, convictions of two or more speeding violations in a work zone could result in the suspension of an individual’s driver’s license. It is imperative that motorists remember to drive carefully through this construction zone, for their own safety and the safety of workers.
For up-to-date travel information, call 511 or visit www.511NY.org.
Waterford-Troy Bridge to be Honored
by Harold Wessell
On September 8 of this year, at Noon in the Soldiers and Sailors Park in Troy, the American Society of Civil Engineers will unveil a plaque recognizing both bridges of the Troy-Waterford crossing as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark – an award that since the program began in 1964 now lists at least 260 structures of particular engineering significance. Following is a brief history of this unique structure.
One day in 1972 this writer, arriving in Dubuque, Iowa, new to town, stepped into a traditional looking tavern to ask some directions.
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Waterford/Cohoes Bridge
by Harold Wessell
WATERFORD, Aug.13 – The state Department of Transportation held identical-format public sessions, in Waterford on this date, and in Cohoes two days later, to explain developing plans to replace the bridge between them. “This project affects a lot of people in our community but also people who every day commute in and out on Saratoga Ave., onto 787 etc., and there’s going to be a lot of interest in our community,” observed Supervisor John Lawler. The Supervisor spoke favorably of DOT project manager Geoffrey Wood and the team.
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