Monsey, NY - More Roadwork On Route 59
Monsey, NY - Workers for the State Department of Transportation will begin road repaving and will put down a fresh layer of asphalt on a mile-long stretch of Route 59 - between Route 306 in Monsey and New County Road in Airmont - after filling in joints and cracks and raising the manholes.
The work will start at 9 p.m. and will wrap up by 6 a.m., DOT spokeswoman Colleen McKenna said. "It'll be done by the end of July," she said. "If the weather stays really nice, they should be able to motor through there."
Drivers should expect delays, as lanes will be closed at times, and are advised to seek alternative routes.
Rienzo, who lives in Regency Village in Monsey, said congestion on Route 59 had "increased so much" that it paid to find other routes.
"The traffic, at times, is bumper to bumper," Rienzo said.
posted by VOS IZ NEIAS @ 6/25/2006 06:00:00 PM
3 Comments:
At 6:33 PM,
Anonymous said…
Why do they need to do this in the middle of the summer months when traffic on Rt 59 is at it highest?
At 7:08 PM,
Anonymous said…
Why do they need to do this in the middle of the summer months when traffic on Rt 59 is at it highest?
At 11:17 AM,
Anonymous said…
Irresponsible is the only word suitable for Ramapo's ill-advised move to amend its zoning code expressly to foster density. It ignores the future of all Rockland, not just the town's, in not addressing water, traffic, drainage and sewering issues. It will regret this force march of urbanity onto a suburban landscape.
Rockland's Department of Planning warned Ramapo about making changes to the zoning code by permitting larger dormitories connected to religious schools and allowing houses to be built in a stalled development off Route 59 and College Road, all despite environmental concern. But the Town Board, perhaps in narrow focus seeking to assist the housing needs of the students while ignoring planned growth, declared that the amendments would not have environmental impact,and subsequently enacted them into law.
Bad move. As Rockland Commissioner of Planning Salvatore Corallo said in a recent review, "Increased density gives rise to concerns about traffic generation, storm water runoff, water supply and sewer capacity." While county planners technically approved the amendments, they obviously did so with great warning about future density, and in the case of the dormitories, recommended that the Department of Health and county Sewer District No. 1 be allowed to comment. Ramapo has four sites for such construction.
But Town Attorney Michael Klein says the Town Board decided there was no need for input until a specific project is pending. Baloney. It is the failure of government throughout Rockland in the past 50 years to not seek various agency input that has given us bad traffic conditions, a stressed water supply, sewer problems and drainage woes that affect many residents and all taxpayers in county remediation costs
While, as staff writer James Walsh reports, First Deputy Town Attorney Alan Berman may say that Ramapo is only conforming the language of the code to the master plan for development, a "clarification, not an increase," county planners calculate that the "clarification" means a 50 percent increase in the ratio between the floor area and the size of the lot, which "will result in significantly larger dormitory buildings."
Bottom line: Too much density. There can be no excuse for urbanizing suburbia, not for any reason. The infrastructure cannot handle that without serious tax load and without greatly impacting the quality of life.
Rockland planners also expressed concern over "special permit standards" that were "crafted specifically for the 'Z&G' or 'Bates Horton' property" in Monsey. Development of the Bates-Horton property off Route 59 and College Road stopped a decade ago after the town properly sued the builder for constructing two- and three-family houses where only single-family, semi-attached ones were allowed.
The review by county planners show that the changes would "increase the residential density from eight units to 11 units per acre and reduce the open-space requirement from 10 percent to 5 percent of the land area."
Attorney Klein says in reply: Zoning changes were needed to "make the development more practical" for builders and eliminate the "eyesore" that the site had become.
Yes, yes, give in. Give in to urbanization. We hope Ramapo likes its new look 10 years from now and can pay for it all.
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