Capital
District Transportation Committee
Bicycle
and Pedestrian Task Force
Record of
Meeting on
Attendance: Rich Karis (New York State Canal Design Bureau), David Hudda (New York State Canal Design Bureau), Salim Adler (PTNY), Judy Breselor (Rensselaer County),
1.0 AGENDA AND MEETING NOTES REVIEW
The November 2004 meeting minutes were approved.
2.0 PROJECTS/PROGRAMS AND OTHER UPDATES
2.1 Presentation--Extension of
trail from
Rich Karis
and David Hudda of the New York State Canal Design
Bureau gave a powerpoint
presentation of the extension of the Canalway Trail
(MHBHT) from
Four major crossings were
identified. They are at the Callanan Industries site, Route 5S, over the CSX railroad
and finally at the Guilford Rail line.
The project was funded
through the TEA-21 Enhancement Program and construction costs are expected to
be around $3M. Preliminary designs and
route alignments are currently being worked on and a paved surface is being
considered. CDTC will receive a copy of
the draft design report when it is finished.
The project is expected to be let in early 2007.
2.2 Presentation--Canalway Trail Project Connecting
Salim Adler of Parks and Trails New York gave a powerpoint presentation of the Canalway
project to connect the existing trail to the Waterford Visitors’ Center. The
purpose of this study is to provide a recommended route for linking the Erie Canalway Trail to
Existing
trail initiatives were looked at including the Erie Canalway
Trail, the Champlain Canalway Trail and the Hudson
River Valley Greenway Trail.
The
study produced three recommendations/route options. The primary connection would use
The full document is available in PDF at www.ptny.org/pdfs/cohoesstudy.pdf
or you can contact Salim at
3.0 ONGOING
TASKS
3.1 Guilderland Pathways
Committee:
No one was present from the Pathways Committee.
J. Purvis noted that the recent
correspondence related to the
4.0 NEW BUSINESS
4.1 Other New Business:
M.
Cashman noted that he has heard many good things about the new MHBHT maps.
J.
Day mentioned that there is meeting of the Albany County Bike Coalition on
Thursday 12/16 at
The
Institute for Healthy Infrastructure (iHi) is
developing a conference to be held on
I.
Vamos discussed the current communications with NIMO regarding the trail at the
EPA clean up site in
J.
Breselor thanked Ivan for the amount of effort put into the Rensselaer County
Trail project.
S.
Adler stated that PTNY is working on a trails conference to be held in June 05
in New Paltz.
J. Purvis and D. Spicer sit on the planning committee for this
conference.
D.
Spicer is working with
4.2
Scheduling of 2005 meetings
The
following Task Force meetings were scheduled for 2005.
Tuesday
January 11th
Tuesday
February 8th
Tuesday
March 8th
Tuesday
April 12th
Tuesday
May 10th