Changes on 9A

[Guest VFDJrSqd02]

I saw on news 12 that they are looking into changes on 9A (finally). I went to their web site and found this...

(01/11/05) OSSINING - Route 9A in the Town of Ossining saw the most accidents on record in 2003. Town officials have asked the State Department of Transportation, which owns the road, to look to improve the road’s safety.

Police say recently a woman was critically injured when her minivan was broadsided by a garbage truck at the intersection of routes 9A and 134. Another accident occurred in nearby Briarcliff Manor last November when a gasoline tanker truck overturned and exploded, leaving two people seriously burned. 

The changes the State Department of Transportation suggested to the town include new turning lanes and traffic lights as well as changes in the roads surface to limit skidding.

The video clip is at http://www.news12.com/WC/topstories/article?id=127502

I think it is about time that changes were made... Any one else hear anything about this?

[x635 4,066]

Unfortunetly, this is just talk. The State and the County Of Westchester have done NOTHING to even initiate interim improvments in the safety of the roadway. NOTHING has or is being done anytime soon to improve the safety of this narrow, heavily congested, hard-to-enforce, dangerous roadway. No increased signage, barriers, or pavement markings, no clearing of heavy brush and debris that encroaches heavily on the road, no maintainence of roadbed surface,guardrail, barriers, and drainage systems, no improved lighting, etc etc etc. No contract with County PD for a full time patrol of this road, and commercial vehicle enforcment.

I'm estimating it would take NYS at least another 7-10 years, and several more lives, before the first shovel hits the dirt. Even then, I'll be shocked if/when it even happens. Look at the Saw Mill River Parkway. Every rainstorm we have basically, it floods. The state has said it will be several years before they do something.

Absolutely disgusting. I feel bad for everybody that has to use that roadway.

NYS doesn't care. I'd love to know where are taxes are going.

[firemn23 8]

Taxes are going to the 87/287 corridor and the rest of 287. I used to love the article in the journal news that listed the projects going on in the Westchester area, has anyone seen that in a while (or remember that). Not that I don't agree with you 635 but even though we pay alot of state taxes in westchester lets not forget that we are not the whole state. Westchester for the most part has been on a rolling construction plan (one ends the other begins). Lets change the nickname of the state from empire state to Construction state.

Also is it me or does the Saw Mill in the Irvington to Hastings Area pond more with water now than it did before they repaved it? Another area of roadway that is not talked about is the death trap of the Saw Mill by the Cantina, Irvington is oout there at least once a week if not more.

[x635 4,066]

Taxes Not that I don't agree with you 635 but even though we pay alot of state taxes in westchester lets not forget that we are not the whole state.

We're not, but we are still a very important and very populous portion of it. We are basically the gateway to the rest of the state from NYC. NYS is spending a lot of wasted dollars statewide, in very rural counties in this state, for questionable road improvments/upgrades, yet it seems the little yet core roadways of our county are neglected year after year....my main beef is that the NYS*DOT doesnt even keep up with routine maintainence or standard safety improvments!!

As with the Saw Mill....from Executive Blvd. to 119 that road is falling apart! Sure, they paved it last year, but the median, shoulders, drainage, lighting and other critical infastructure is all substandard and falling apart. Not to mention the forestry, which is quickly encroaching on the roadway, except for in Hastings where the state's subcontractors did a disgusting job clearing the forest away.....talk about stripping! That was a preventative measure for the lawsuit regarding the couple that was tragically killed.....but they didn't do anything to improve the aesthetics or safety of the road by doing the kill everything job they did there.

Speaking of which, New York City and LI suck an enormous amount of our tax dollars away.