Public can see bike trail design Monday



Residents will get a look at the design plans for extending the trail between Vale Park and Central Park at 7 p.m. Monday at the Schenectady County Public Library’s central branch, 99 Clinton St., Schenectady.

Read Lauren Stanforth’s story here.

Tim O'Brien

5 Responses

  1. pave some streets says:

    I’d rather see Schenectady spend 2 million paving a few more city streets than a bike trail. NYSDOT has the same problem-budgeting money for “multi-modal” projects like river walks when the darn bridges and highways are falling down around us. At the very least-spend 1/2 on the roads and the balance on fixing some of the ankle breaking sidewalks that exist here in the city.

  2. Lifelong resident says:

    I agree with the above comments, this is a shame that they are spending $2 million on a bike path? It’s almost as ridiculous as the people protesting about the lake not being cleared for ice skating, I mean what are our priorities in this city?? Is our economy flourishing that much? When are the gov. officials in this city going to learn? Maybe do something with the abandoned buildings on Hamilton like the old Carver center or revitalize the Boys and Girls Club. Does it even take that much to fix a bike path?? I am disgusted by the actions of this city….but what’s new??

  3. T.O. says:

    I guess the good folks at city hall havent had the pleasure of driving down Erie blvd lately.. talk about destroying your car with each turn of the wheel..

  4. zufechten says:

    When gas hits $8 per gallon, you’ll be glad to have another way to get around. If cities as far north as Copenhagen can have 40% of commuters biking to work, we can do better than a measly 0.3%.

  5. Zufechten says:

    According to US Census data, in Burlington, 2% of people commute by bicycle. In Ithaca, it is 3%. In our area, it is 0.3%. Even Watertown, NY, has a bicycle commute share twice as high as ours.

    Why is this important? Well, for starters, we import more than half of the oil we use from regions like the mid-east and Venezuela, which are unstable or have governments that really don’t like us.

    It is likely that we have already used more than half of the crude oil that is out there. Yes, new oil fields are being found, but most of them are under two miles of ocean. Not exactly cheap or easy to get to.

    China and India are becoming middle class countries, and their people are buying more and more cars. So, we will be competing with a billion more drivers for gasoline. Gas prices are going to go up.

    What can we do about it? We can keep griping about our non-sustainable transportation system and pay out the nose for gas, or we can start building bike lanes, sidewalks, bus lines, light rail, etc.

    Which is it going to be?