Where Should the Rivertowns Make Road Improvements?

With pothole season in full swing the Rivertowns were grateful to receive extra state funding, which local village managers said will be put toward their village’s repaving program.

New York State Sen. Andrea Stewart-Cousins announced on March 27 that 11 municipalities in the 35^th district would receive an additional $939,793 in New York State Consolidated Highway Improvements Funds in the 2013-14 budget.

Statewide, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a budget for the program of $438M, up an unprecedented $75M, the first increase in many years. Westchester County alone will get almost $13.7M of these funds, an increase of about 20 percent.

“The Highway department uses these funds to repairs roads based on their condition,” said Dobbs Ferry Village Administrator Marcus Serrano.  “We never receive enough to do all we would like to.”

Funding will be distributed to the Rivertowns as follows: 

• Dobbs Ferry -  $111,171, an additional $23,522
• Hastings-on-Hudson - $139,514, an additional $29,699
• Irvington - $93,952, an additional $19,044

Click here for the original story on the funding increase.

Hastings-on-Hudson Village Manager Fran Frobel explains how Hastings-on-Hudson decides what road improvements will be made, “The list is developed through the year by the staff of the Department of Public Works of streets and roads we think would be good candidates for resurfacing.” 

Hastings-on-Hudson then submits the list to the Village’s member of an intermunicipal shared services committee, and the paving work is bid and completed in a joint resurfacing contract with neighboring villages.

Irvington Village Administrator Larry Schopfer said this type of funding either goes toward street repaving or for sidewalk and curb work in Irvington.

“We are more than happy to receive additional state aid,” said Schopfer. “We will be using it to increase and sustain our repaving and sidewalk programs. We put a lot of money into that in recent years, this will allow us to do more.”

Have a local road you think ranks among the worst in town in desperate need of repaving? Add it to the comments (be specific with cross streets please) and I’ll regularly update this ongoing map.

And better yet: use this link to access the map yourself and add a dot on the street(s) of your choice.