WHAT A DEAL! CROTON POINT AVE., A LETTER FROM JOEL GINGOLD & THIS WEEK'S GAZETTE

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The following letter was published in this week’s issue of the Gazette.

To the Editor,

Oh, boy!! Wowie!! Ladies and gentlemen, girls and boys, drop whatever you’re doing and dash down to Croton Point Avenue (CPA) and see what our village board and 4.5 million taxpayer dollars (although it may be five, or even six, million dollars by now) have bought you.

We now have a new sidewalk on the north side of the street—that looks pretty much like the one we had before construction started. And another sidewalk on the south side that almost no one will use. But the board must feel it’s offensive to ask anyone to cross the street at the South Riverside light and use the north side sidewalk. So they put in another one. Why not? It’s not their money.

We also have two itsy-bitsy bike lanes that, again, hardly anyone will use—no one ever took a bicycle census to determine how many commuters actually used bicycles even before the pandemic struck. And those bike lanes are protected from the heavy traffic on CPA by . . . thick stripes of white paint on the pavement. That’ll really protect those cyclists. And, to fit all of that in, the width of car lanes has been reduced by nearly 10% making both drivers and cyclists less safe than they were before. So it’s probably a good thing that there won’t be many cyclists on the road. MORE FROM JOEL GINGOLD HERE.