The Notice of Intent to Establish a Quiet Zone was sent out by the Albany County Department of Public Works to the required parties two weeks ago. CSX responded with no comments and gave the name of a contact person with whom the Voorheesville consultant engineer should speak regarding the initiation of the engineering design.
So things are moving.
On August 13th County Executive Dan McCoy visited the New Scotland Town Board as part of his listening tour of Albany County. We took that opportunity to express to him the importance of a quiet zone to Voorheesville and also our appreciation for the County’s support of an engineering design to get the final cost figures for the quiet zone. He indicated that safety and quality of life issues associated with railroads were very important issues on his agenda and would continue to be so.