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The River Journal reports that the village has received a AAA Gold Award for essentially, the Croton Point Avenue project etc.
Croton's Joel Gingold has responded; you can read that below. The article detailing the "gold award" can be found here.
And from Mr. Gingold:
The Croton Point Avenue Project was a gross misuse of $4.5 million in taxpayer funds for “improvements” that have made travel through the area more difficult and time consuming because of the multiplicity of traffic lights; has actually reduced safety by narrowing the width of automobile travel lanes by about 10%; “protecting” bicyclists (of whom there are almost none) with nothing more than a stripe painted on the pavement; and adding a sidewalk that almost no one will use when there was originally a perfectly serviceable sidewalk along one side of the street.
And, of course, the ostensible purpose of the project was to improve flow in and out of the station parking lot. But guess what? the number of people using the lot has declined dramatically due to the pandemic, negating the need for the project as well as costing the Village of Croton millions of dollars a year in revenue. But we still have to pay off the bonds that funded the project which forms only a part of the enormous debt carried by the village, one of the most indebted villages in all of New York State.
Rather than a Gold Award, the Village of Croton deserves a Booby Prize for this egregious waste of public funds.
Between fewer trains and the stop, go, stop, go, of multiple lights in a short span of space, my commute is just getting worse and worse.
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