From a Letter to the Editor at NewCastleNOW.org written by Chuck Napoli, R.A.:
We must petition our New Castle elected officials to stop the department of transportation’s three-lane bridge replacement and associated highway extension for the reasons that the construction is neither in context nor compatible with the character of the Chappaqua Hamlet and is completely insensitive to the architectural history of the bridge being replaced.
How did we get from simple repair to bridge replacement?
The original bridge project of 2000 has changed dramatically from a simple repair and a type II state environmental quality review action of no substantial changes to something drastically different. The scope of the project we ask to be stopped has morphed into a massive construction, greatly exceeding the definition of minor highway rehabilitation. The bridge replacement component widens the Rt. 120 traveled road width to three travel lanes, two very wide shoulders, four foot high stone guard rails at the sidewalks and expansive concrete surfaces striped with required yellow or white painted caution markings and medians that split the surplus pavement and traffic into four travel lanes as they merge into the triangle intersection at South Greeley Avenue. Very different.
Read Chuck Napoli’s complete Letter to the Editor at NewCastleNOW.org. He clearly explains who, what, why, when and how to stop a major mistake about to happen in the Chappaqua Hamlet.
In one thought… think, “Big 4-lane highway bridge meets small town hamlet.” Think it can’t happen? In fact, it already has. Read more.
It sounds like the ’spot improvements’ the powers that be are making to the local highway here, which set it up for widening, which is the true purpose of the improvements. And, widening is strongly opposed by the local community.
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