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- 2026-09-29Common CouncilRegular Meeting of the Common Council 9/29/26 Pt. 13 passages longer discussion21:02are used to walking or biking from farther distances. So I'm almost positive that people will be you'll have a lot of foot traffic out there. Yeah. Thank you. I think we will take that suggestion and talk with I think law enforcement, our local transportation services. Uh take a look at maybe some planning ideas about how else we can save other folks, especially because …
- 38:59Or how about all the the latest bigger big problem on our streets and sidewalks of scooters, electric scooters and electric bikes. The number of kids and adults zipping down the State Street sidewalks repeatedly has gotten gotten so bad. But these cameras aren't doing anything about it.
- 2026-09-16County Government CommitteeCounty Govt || Public Works || September 16, 20264 passages longer discussion48:21and the fact that they're doing again a bicycle um path or bicycle route across a metal deck bridge makes no sense, but
- 2026-09-15County Health and Human Services CommitteeHealth & Human Services || September 15, 20263 passages longer discussion1:23:30All right. And this is a bicycle pedestrian safety grant in the amount of 7,320.
- 2026-09-15HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 9/15/2026 Board of Education Meeting1 passage1:30:01… excited about school, the nerves creep up. And so I love the opportunity to hang out in front of the building and draw a picture on the sidewalk so that then the next day when you're getting dropped off, you get to jump over the rainbow that you drew. And that's how you walk into the school building. And I think that really makes a big impact on the first day. So thank you to …
- 29:12They keep flow. They have the flow of traffic, but they don't have a stop sign because if they jammed up there, again, it's a safety concern with the railroad tracks and all that. So they have the right away. It it is reversed like it is it is wrong. It is wrong like you're right in the way you're thinking but it's a little backwards than what you're normally used to atypical …
- 1:10:04… John Clowning. I work for Kimley Horn. I'm a professional engineer licensed to practice in the state of New York and have over 30 years of traffic engineering experience. Uh we've conducted multiple studies for this application and they were submitted to your board, reviewed by your consultant. Um phase one which is the subject of this application is a request for approval for …
- 17:50… a lot of time is that that there's a there's a governance around the exit of a parking lot a certain size and its relationship to an intersection. My question is, do we consider the alley the alleys meet that same standard of sort of intersection potential?
- 35:21is there anything like uniforms for uh you know language like you know a big stop sign or anything that identifies it or or is it broken down into better Spanish and everything our signage or is it just um what's the sign
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- 1:20:09… I know you guys for some reason don't seem interested in providing that. I think it's essential for us to do our job. And we get it that traffic engineers do everything based on data, based on communication, whatever. Again, my understanding as a non-traffic engineer, there's language in the Creighton Manning report showing that the traffic data was generated, not by counts, …
- 11:09effects of truck traffic and identify and assess alternate truck route options that reduce truck traffic within the city we also want to identify options for true truck traffic that provide a cost effective and safe uh safer alternate route through the city so with those objectives we have some goals of the study so we wanted to identify preferred alternative routes for the …
- 1:49:36gone out and uh collected some more information uh namely traffic data and we really wanted to see how much traffic was going through the Front Street Broad Street intersection and we also wanted to see how much traffic was going through the Columbia Street um North Third Street intersection and we also did some updated traffic counts on Route 9g and also Route 9 uh that …
- 1:05:16intersection of Oakwood and padic and the we go down on the on the opposite side of the traffic because there's false walks and so we go down the P one adult goes first and then the kids follow behind and we ride on the school side of paddock because that's the best way to get there we had historically done that because there was no uh there were no markings for pedestrians or …
- 53:51uh moving on to d uh thanks for that john that's great that's great um uh d is about bicycles and pedestrians will degrade pedestrian bicycle accommodations again look at big picture here if we're looking at over a thousand percent increase in trucks from the 2015 numbers uh and that is the the crossing where pedestrians and bicycles are also using that space um i'm gonna make …
- 1:41:42you can look at traffic impacts on the dock but there's no question that when the court affirmed all of the seeker work by the town of greenport on traffic they uh confirmed that the traffic study and actually the city said that the traffic study uh was good that was pointed out by the court in the record um and uh so seekers done on traffic all the way to the gate thank you …
- 1:10:32Yeah. I just want to make a comment about um the intersection of six and um pro well prospect and six. Obviously, it's a oneway. Everybody is uh has to turn onto six. Um I live a half a block away. There was a really nasty T-bone accident there um about four or five years ago. It's one of the more dangerous intersections in the city. Um and it always ha it always has been. Now …
- 50:54I have a question for you um in the traffic study one thing I noticed was it was done on a day in January when it was like 12 degrees out with a 20 mile an hour wind it had just snowed um and it didn't seem to be realistic to me with real real time um is it is there any magic to doing a study then as opposed to doing it in nice weather when there are more people out more …
- 38:25So, in the past I used to have um registration for bikes, right? And that was for two reasons, right? That was for the um to get information out or to and also to register bikes. So, if the bike is stolen,
- 1:11:06bike lane also, right? This is the city has bikes up on the sidewalk and the bikes are going to run down this sidewalk to connect to the New York State Rail Trail. And if we were to shrink this sidewalk to push in for a bus, we don't know where those bikes would go. Cross the street somewhere. But I'm just I I mean, we the cost to engineer this is becoming burdensome on me and …
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- 1:20:09… I know you guys for some reason don't seem interested in providing that. I think it's essential for us to do our job. And we get it that traffic engineers do everything based on data, based on communication, whatever. Again, my understanding as a non-traffic engineer, there's language in the Creighton Manning report showing that the traffic data was generated, not by counts, …
- 2026-09-29Common CouncilRegular Meeting of the Common Council 9/29/26 Pt. 13 passages longer discussion21:02are used to walking or biking from farther distances. So I'm almost positive that people will be you'll have a lot of foot traffic out there. Yeah. Thank you. I think we will take that suggestion and talk with I think law enforcement, our local transportation services. Uh take a look at maybe some planning ideas about how else we can save other folks, especially because …
- 38:59Or how about all the the latest bigger big problem on our streets and sidewalks of scooters, electric scooters and electric bikes. The number of kids and adults zipping down the State Street sidewalks repeatedly has gotten gotten so bad. But these cameras aren't doing anything about it.
- 2026-09-16County Government CommitteeCounty Govt || Public Works || September 16, 20264 passages longer discussion48:21and the fact that they're doing again a bicycle um path or bicycle route across a metal deck bridge makes no sense, but
- 2026-09-15County Health and Human Services CommitteeHealth & Human Services || September 15, 20263 passages longer discussion1:23:30All right. And this is a bicycle pedestrian safety grant in the amount of 7,320.
- 2026-09-15HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 9/15/2026 Board of Education Meeting1 passage1:30:01… excited about school, the nerves creep up. And so I love the opportunity to hang out in front of the building and draw a picture on the sidewalk so that then the next day when you're getting dropped off, you get to jump over the rainbow that you drew. And that's how you walk into the school building. And I think that really makes a big impact on the first day. So thank you to …
- 29:12They keep flow. They have the flow of traffic, but they don't have a stop sign because if they jammed up there, again, it's a safety concern with the railroad tracks and all that. So they have the right away. It it is reversed like it is it is wrong. It is wrong like you're right in the way you're thinking but it's a little backwards than what you're normally used to atypical …
- 1:10:04… John Clowning. I work for Kimley Horn. I'm a professional engineer licensed to practice in the state of New York and have over 30 years of traffic engineering experience. Uh we've conducted multiple studies for this application and they were submitted to your board, reviewed by your consultant. Um phase one which is the subject of this application is a request for approval for …
- 17:50… a lot of time is that that there's a there's a governance around the exit of a parking lot a certain size and its relationship to an intersection. My question is, do we consider the alley the alleys meet that same standard of sort of intersection potential?
- 35:21is there anything like uniforms for uh you know language like you know a big stop sign or anything that identifies it or or is it broken down into better Spanish and everything our signage or is it just um what's the sign
- 54:54… blocking the uh the view of the one historical window uh they actually left in place. This is all viewable from the public view on the sidewalk also.
- 16:37… having a second handicap space on the other side of the clearance area, right? And what about um obvious, you know, there's going to be a traffic issue and things like what about access to like a crosswalk beacon crosswalk there at that location. um because there's there's limited sidewalk and it's for the walkability because there's a lot of neighbor kids that have needed …
- 2026-08-19County Government CommitteeCounty Govt || Public Works || August 19, 20264 passages longer discussion39:54No, we we still don't to do all of our roads, so we kind of been prioritizing. Some roads we we that are higher traffic or or need the strike a little more, we make sure we hit every year.
- 2026-08-18County Health and Human Services CommitteeHealth & Human Services || Public Safety || August 18, 20263 passages longer discussion1:34:44But New York State gave us the same explanation that the sheriff has given us which is these are license platers and theirs are only doing traffic counts.
- 4:30… used it is used today. Uh two nights ago there were 10 kids playing soccer on the field. Today there were two kids riding around on dirt bikes. They like to ride up the embankment. Um there was a man who every day went cross-country skiing around when there was snow. It's still in the mind of the public. It's still mowed by the DPW on a like weekly or monthly basis. So it's …
- 10:48… you know, our our focus and and our pretty narrow. I look at the uh the cult, not the culture, but the the quality of the neighborhood, traffic, safety, environmental issues, uh, and other matters that you believe are important to us.
- 53:32We're providing six electrical vehicle charging stations, one of which will also be ADA. So there's really three ADA parking spaces. Um and those are connected to the the new uh sidewalk via pedestrian friendly ADA accessible ramp. So those um
- 2026-08-10Common CouncilCommon Council Code and Infrastructure Committee 8/10/2625 passages longer discussion28:20Well, I mean, let's be yes. When you say goes through there's there's a sidewalk permit, and let's just say what it is. It's basically a release. That's all it ever was. The contractor and or the property owner fill it out. They say it's a two-eek permit and they say, "I agree to hold the city harmless. I know I'm not supposed to obstruct it or I'm supposed to make the same …
- 18:12Um and uh last but not least uh we had the bike shop um at Oell as well. Uh traditionally that was um led by uh by Aaron. Um but uh Aaron uh recently uh gave birth to her her son. And so this year we had Cory Parks who came in as our lead mechanic to oversee that operation where we have uh two junior mechanics on um they are there to support. Um and then uh whether it's the …
- 5:45It it wasn't a scooter. I think it was a bike. It was some sort of bike. Um electric bike,
- 8:52No. Um, sidewalks are a big deal because I I I think you have to study like the traffic patterns and stuff like that, but if you go to the park um and you look on the Warren Street sides, very obvious, they're not in alignment with um uh both sorry up and down. I won't say so I think it's west and east. Um anyway, they're not in alignment. So at some point in the past it um …
- 0:16… did change um and that just had to do with some future projects that the city already has. Um sewer tie-ins and gas tie-ins that now the sidewalks um are a part of.
- 25:13Hi, my name is Fritz Suckerman. I'm a licensed landscape architect and I live in the fourth ward. I my comments are prim primarily about the site. The circulation and the parking should not go down second street. Second street is a narrow residential street and cannot handle this traffic volume. The traffic should go through State Street to be safe.
- 54:32… aware of this this resolution and wants to review it in terms of how it puts into phase three of the box project which included uh some sidewalk work making aligning it with the size of the sidewalk elsewhere. So, she is following up at the mayor's office on any questions about this one. We will be voting on it next meeting. Okay.
- 2026-07-15County Government CommitteeCounty Govt || Public Works || July 15, 20263 passages longer discussion54:08This year we did, you know, 21 C and 21 up to that intersection. We're going to be doing cold and place reclamation from 17 all the way out to State Route 22. So that entire length and then we'll be paving it. And then Spook Rock Road um once shoulders are complete, we're looking probably an August time frame for um higher rehab to come in hot and place reclamation. And then …
- 36:53Give me a minute. So in other words, like saying that I wanted to move late to traffic, the voucher will go that far.
- 24:55That's and that in this part isn't even really part of law. This is background that would be in front of you whether or not this law is is is an act if those provisions are already there. The data on the truck traffic I'm sure that the public will present to you. So none of this is actually new. This is not being imposed. It is not new.
- 22:17Uh let's see what road restoration seasonal stuff. This is not a union turbike, you know, by the noer. Um, you know, the crosswalks we started putting some material down after this one was put down by the the one by the opera house was melted and removed because that one's that one was really never compliant. Never had any ADA ramps. Um, there's signs, there's tree, there's …
- 4:52… of a critical environmental area? Not a small impact. Will the proposed action result in an adverse change to the existing levels of traffic or affect existing infrastructure from mass transit, biking or walkways? Not a small impact. Will the proposed action cause an increase in the use of energy and it fails to incorporate reasonably available energy conservation or renewable …
- 0:34Um so that looks pretty good actually. I mean, you should just give it a go at it and see um what we can use for our own think about the sidewalks and um
- 10:30So for the so for the quarterly vehicle and traffic reports um 216 tickets were issued for quarter 2. Um and then if you break it down 320 traffic stops or incidents were completed. Um, so that's a 65 67 12% issuance rate um for traffic and that includes 16 uh speeding tickets for for that time period as well. Uh, and I do kind of disappointed Mr. Krueger isn't here today …
- 15:02So, there's a bike thing coming up, right? Is that this week or what?
- 26:07Um, am I to understand that you're going to fix certain really bad portions of sidewalk like over here at se uh sixth and rope um but you're not going to do the entire block because as I understand it what we need it seems like what we need to do is do a block at a time. We don't want to do a half a block one parcel that's really bad and leave the other half you know other …
- 12:35And then phase three is very long-term things that would require all sorts of approvals and widening the sidewalks like they used to be in 1874 or things like this. So those things I think are probably uh they'll consider in a year or two. And since we're talking about needy clients, we um this committee and the full board approved a loan to Steinbach back in December, I …
- 22:39Well the big problem we have is always the money and for three years I've been talking about pilot as a way to put money together for traffic calming for pedestrian safety for other things not just parking although that needs help too. Yeah. Um so I know it's not the same thing, but the the new um bike game the the the trail there I can't remember what it's called. In my …
- 2026-06-17County Government CommitteeCounty Gov't || Public Works || June 17, 20263 passages longer discussion45:00… mix hot mix patching crews in full full force cruise are painting stop bars and clearing sight distance. We completed the concrete pad and sidewalk at the fire training center for the fire coordinator and we are completing almost done with the covert and drainage work on county route 2121C in Gant Hillsdale area that's ahead of our construction project and we've completed all …
- 2026-06-16HCSD Board of EducationHudson City School District: 6/16/2026 Board of Education Meeting1 passage1:51:13Central. I was at central 100 feet is [snorts] in the middle of the parking lot in the middle of the road or down on a sidewalk somewhere. It's really complex to figure out how to do that but it is a rule.
- 7:57… town rather than a specific project and that was their reason for not um awarding us. We will continue to pursue other grants to help the intersection of the hospital and uh the pedestrian safety and uh circulation around the park.
- 2026-06-10County Board of SupervisorsWellness Hub Presentation || Full Board Meeting || June 10, 20262 passages8:20what we're calling Willow Landing which is the former quality in hotel uh just u at the traffic circle in the town of Olter. Um we're converting that to 82 permanent supportive housing units. It was a 146 room hotel. We're paying it down. We're going to have studios, onebedroom, two interiors. going to serve families and individuals. And also on that site, it had a pool, …
- 1:09… stuff there's a number of like local issues that we're delving into now that DEC doesn't really need to see uh one of them is the the traffic plan, MPT, management of protection of traffic.