Rich Straut, a member of the Village Board and liaison with CSX on the quiet zone project, reported this week that CSX has retained a consultant to begin the preliminary study work, and that they plan to have the initial field investigations completed sometime in the middle of this month. He has promised to keep us posted. … [Read more...]

The March 22, 2016 QZ Committee members Ed Clark and Barbara Brundage attended the Village Board meeting. Barbara reports that the Village will be signing a contract with CSX for services that include initial planning and a cost estimate but not an engineering design. Former County Legislator Herb Reilly and current County Legislator Mike Mackey were present and received the … [Read more...]

At the January Village Board workshop last week, Rich Straut, the Village’s liaison with CSX, reported that CSX told him that it was willing to provide some kind of assessment for a four-quad gate system, including cost estimates, for the $27,000 the Village has on hand for that purpose. Mr. Straut, who recently returned from vacation, said that he would be contacting CSX, to … [Read more...]

On December 10, 2015 the NYS Department of Transportation hosted a meeting to discuss the quiet zone. Present were Mayor Conway; Rich Straut, the consultant engineer who is the contact person between the Village and CSX; Darrell Duncan and Bill Anslow from the Albany County Department of Public Works; Robert Rohauer from CSX; Lou Reh from NYSDOT; Lou Frangella from FRA; and … [Read more...]

After six months CSX finally responded to Mayor Conway’s April 2015 letter requesting an explanation of why the cost of the preliminary engineering design in 2015 was triple the figure given to us by CSX in 2013.  Unfortunately, the letter was almost completely unresponsive to the questions that were asked.  The Mayor is setting up a meeting of the principal parties to try to … [Read more...]