- April
- 21
I reminded you this morning that work to move a gas main under Route 59 in Central Nyack was starting today and would continue for a couple weeks.
Guess what? Once Orange & Rockland Utilities tore up the road to get to its gas main that was supposed to have been causing drainage problems in the Central Nyack neighborhood near Nyack Lumber Yard and the entrance to and exit from the New York State Thruway, crews discovered the pipe was not the culprit, after all.
Turns out, O&R said today, the area around the culvert was “jammed with hardened mud and debris.” The main wasn’t even inside the culvert.
So O&R will repave the road tomorrow and all lanes will open by day’s end.
Will drivers have to be inconvenienced at some other time for the state Department of Transportation to clean out the culvert? (Route 59 is a state road and so the DOT has responsibility for its maintenance.) Or, it may be the Nyack Water Co.’s repsonsibility.
Stay tuned.
Posted by Amy Vernon on Monday, April 21st, 2008 at 5:23 pm |
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- April
- 21
Starting at 8:30 this morning, two westbound lanes on Route 59 will be closed near the Mountainview Avenue entrance to the New York State Thruway in Central Nyack. As a result, traffic will be down to one lane in each direction for a half-mile stretch daily for two or three weeks. Work each weekday will end no later than 7 p.m.
We ran a story about the project last week, which you can download as a pdf here.
Officials suggest using other entrances and avoiding Exit 11 if at all possible.
Posted by Amy Vernon on Monday, April 21st, 2008 at 7:00 am |
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- September
- 18
I wrote a story for Sunday’s paper on a group of West Nyack residents and businessmen who came up with some largescale solutions to eliminate flooding on Route 59. In the story, I mentioned some “choke points” they described. Basically, it’s where railroad trestles, culverts or bridges could be widened and/or heightened to allow more water to flow underneath during a storm. Here’s a graphic with specific locations that didn’t make it into the paper:
If you want to read the story, you can find it here.
By the way, just a reminder that the meeting on flooding issues in Clarkstown is still on for Thursday, Sept. 20 at Clarkstown Town Hall at 1 p.m. The meeting is open to the public so anyone else with flooding concerns is encouraged to talk about them there!
Posted by Amy Padnani on Tuesday, September 18th, 2007 at 10:43 pm |
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- February
- 20
Airmont Road and Route 59 in Ramapo is one of the most heavily traveled intersections in the county.
It seems that a change in the traffic light intervals has improved the flow of traffic.
Have you noticed that? And what other intersections in the county do you see as troublesome, either because of congestion or other issues?
Posted by James Walsh on Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 at 4:39 pm |
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