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The most useless light on earth. Open

616-620 Saratoga St Cohoes, NY 12047, USA - Cohoes

The stop light in front of Hot Dog Charlies is not needed. When it was blinking during the daytime, traffic was flowing so smooth. Take it out all together.

2011-10-06 · Reported by Woody (Guest) · · Flag Flagged

smooth sailing (Guest)

I agree. Very little traffic comes out of the Housing Projects and there is an alternative exit from Hot Dog Charlies that people could use.

2012-03-18 · Flag Flagged
anonymous (Guest)

GET RID OF THIS USELESS TRAFFIC LIGHT!! IT DOES NOTHING!!!

2013-06-08 · Flag Flagged
guest (Guest)

I agree, this light is a throw back to the days before I-787 was extended. The one at Bridge St, not Bridge Ave, could also go, if it is still there.

2013-06-08 · Flag Flagged

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RUSH-HOUR CHAOS WHEN TRAINS ARE CROSSING!!!!!!!!!!!! Open

216 Mohawk Street Cohoes, New York - Cohoes

This intersection looks like the streets of New Delhi, India during rush hours when a train is crossing!

Yesterday at 4:45PM, approximately 20-30 vehicles were waiting on each street at Mohawk St., Columbia St., Bridge Ave., Remsen St., and Cohoes Rd. for the train to cross.

I was on Mohawk St. headed south. My vehicle was stopped and waiting for the train just like everyone else was. As soon as the train passed by, 5-6 cars peeled-out and violently passed me and 4 other cars on the left side of the road in order to make the left turn over the railroad crossing, in order to get to Interstate 787!

The chaos and agressive road-rage that this intersection causes is intolerable! Someone is going to get killed here because of this horrific bottleneck which needs to be completely reconstructed NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE TRAIN CROSSINGS IN COHOES HAVE BECOME A DANGEROUS TRAVEL NIGHTMARE!!!! FIX THEM NOW!!!!!!!!!!!! MAKE THESE DEATH TRAP ROADWAYS ONE-WAY STREETS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2013-05-24 · Reported by Anonymous · · Flag Flagged

guest (Guest)

The problem is more complicated than just the drivers. There was a great plan to close 3 of the crossings and make 2 of them one way. Since the train accident that resulted in a death, that plan has been tabled.

CP Rail is now running trains over 10,000 feet long, where they used to run half that size. Worse, the speed is reduced, so the trains take longer to clear.

The absolute solution, for all time, would be to "sink" the tracks, below grade, eliminating all crossings.

Now that these trains are hauling gas, it is a huge safety issue. One accident could result in the destruction on most of the city.

This happned several years ago in the western part of the state.

It is a huge capital investment to dig a trench to put the tracks below grade and add the bridges, but it is now a priority.

Hopefully someone in authority will push for this. Cohoes is tough. I remember when the power plant was supposed to be built, but got cancled, even though it had support from congress.

I really hope they work with the state and CP Rail to make this happen, and soon.

Also, completing the I-787 loop to I-87 and the RT-32 bypass would be a good idea as well.

2013-05-24 · Flag Flagged
EnoughTrainHorns (Guest)

I'd like to see that area designated a quiet zone... free from those annoyingly LOUD train horns. Those horns are huge quality of life issue for anyone living nearby and for everyone living across the river in Troy. PLEASE STOP THE TRAIN HORNS!

2013-06-07 · Flag Flagged
guest (Guest)

There was a plan to make the streets one way and to make the area a quiet zone, but after the crash at New Cortland St that killed the woman, they scrapped the plan.

If you read my previous comment, making the train tracks below grade is the logical solution and adding flyovers for I-787 and Rt-32.

Next year they will begin taking bids for the 2016 RT 32 bridge replacement project, and this would be the perfect time to bring back the I-787 loop to I-87 and RT-32 Bypass plans that were scrapped in the late 80's.

The amount of traffic now warrants the need for both of these projects to be done.

Talk with your neighbors and start a petition and hold a meeting to get the ball rolling. A website would be a good idea too.

2013-06-07 · Flag Flagged

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STOP THE COHOES GARBAGE-PICKERS!!! Open

34 Willow Street Cohoes, New York - Cohoes

For the past few months, random people keep going through my apartment's garbage cans right out on the street!! Probably looking for bottles and cans!!

I'm sorry, but this is unacceptable! If you want to collect bottles and cans, go find some along the side of the road, in empty lots, or in abandoned yards-- don't go rooting through my GARBAGE CANS!

This is just downright disgusting and LOW-CLASS!!!

Why don't the police stop this kind of nuisance?!?!

2013-06-04 · Reported by Anonymous · · Flag Flagged

guest (Guest)

This has been common place in the downtown area forever. I guess they just are getting to your area now. Not just bottles and cans. If they have a bag with them, than most likely that is what they are after. If no bag, than they are searching for other stuff. Make sure you are not throwing away anything that identity thevies could use. There is a lot of that happening. Also, install a security camera ouside your house and have an outside monitoring service record it 24 hours a day. It sounds like there is a lot of crime in that area, and with the Lofts right around the corner, I am guessing all the resources are going to protect those buildings. Video is good evidence, even though it does not stop the crime. If you can keep your cans inside, or get a locking rubbermaid bin that will hold the cans, so they are only out on garbage day. Be proactive. I know it sucks.

2013-06-04 · Flag Flagged
anonymous (Guest)

Unfortunately I live in an apartment and am not allowed to have my own trash cans or install a security camera. I am a renter, and am forced to put up with this kind of nonsense. I mean, this little area of the city isn't really that bad, except maybe the loud music from the Polish Association on Friday and Saturday nights, or the fact that all the bar patrons take up parking spaces from all the people who live here, but it just irks me that people are picking through my garbage! It's not a huge deal, it's just very low-class. Hey, times are tough, I understand that. I collect bottles and cans from other people in my building, but I separate them before the regular trash goes out and then take them to Price Chopper to return the empties. I don't pick through other peoples' garbage cans looking for stuff! It's disgusting and the problem needs to be addressed.

2013-06-05 · Flag Flagged
guest (Guest)

I know this is a lot of work, but try to follow the people back to where they live. I am guessing this is someone in your neighborhood, unless they have a vehicle. If they have a vehicle, get a plate number, or a description and post it here. For a while there was an older blue ford van, like a 90, 0r 91, that was constatly doing this. They would haul away boxes and bags, even went through the local stores garbages and took rotten food. See if you can get more info. Putting a motion IP camera pointed out your window would be something you could do and get some pictures of who is doing this and post it here.

2013-06-05 · Flag Flagged

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Light pole Open

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Light is out on pole

2012-10-01 · Reported by Hank Shepard (Guest) · · Flag Flagged

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The light is out on the pole in front of my house. I would please like it fixed.

2012-10-01 · Flag Flagged

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No CDTA Bus from Cohoes to new GLOBAL FOUNDRIES Plant in Malta or the malls o... Open

Ontario St Cohoes, NY - Cohoes

Only way to get there new GLOBAL FOUNDRIES Plant or the malls in Saratoga county by bus is to travel via Schenectady which would take one and half hours to go 12 miles. How can you get an job at a Rt 146 mall without a car?

2010-11-05 · Reported by H Smith (Guest) · · Flag Flagged

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Alice (Guest)

Is there any plan for CDTA to extend a bus route to fix this problem?

2011-11-05 · Flag Flagged
AJ (Guest)

The plant is open still no bus

2012-01-12 · Flag Flagged
Alan (Guest)

Just extend one of the existing Cohoes bus routes 3 times a day

2012-01-12 · Flag Flagged
Ken (Guest)

They should have a few Northway Express bus do a pick up in Cohoes/Troy and stop at GLOBAL FOUNDRIES Plant

2013-03-28 · Flag Flagged

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People Parking On Sidewalk Open

34 Willow Street Cohoes, NY - Cohoes

There are still many people parking on the sidewalk of the empty lot on Willow Street. They think that just because the curb isn't 6 inches high, that they can park wherever they feel like it!!

You are supposed to park on the PAVEMENT, not on the SIDEWALK!

2013-02-22 · Reported by anonymous (Guest) · · Flag Flagged

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More vehicles are parking on the sidewalk.

2013-05-15 · Flag Flagged

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Do Not Enter sign needed! Open

1 Worth St Cohoes, NY 12047, USA - Cohoes

A "Do Not Enter" sign is needed in this location! Drivers frequently drive the wrong way up this street because there is no sign! (There are only "One-Way" signs which are not easily visible.)

This is very dangerous!

2010-04-20 · Reported by Anonymous · · Flag Flagged

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Do Not Enter signs were FINALLY put up at the bottom of Willow Street... Can we please get Do Not Enter signs at the bottom of Worth Street now???

2013-05-07 · Flag Flagged

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Needs alternate side street parking Open

Central Ave Cohoes, NY - Cohoes

Central Ave in Cohoes is too narrow for parking on both sides, especially with comercial business trucks and equiptment parked on the street and sidewalks.

2010-10-13 · Reported by Anonymous · · Flag Flagged

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SM8 (Guest)

j. gendron, I have lived here all my life, Central Ave has never been so crowed or dangerous. By the way, I drive the speed limit and don't own a blackberry, or a cell phone. I practically remember the horse and buggy days....Or should I say Erie Canal Days?

2011-09-27 · Flag Flagged
j. gendron (Guest)

You live there. You should know best.Here's how alternate parking works.Park your car,it snows,dig out,go back across the street,shovel what two feet of snow bank the plow didn't remove,shovel a path to your stoop.Move your car.Wait for second wave of Nor- Easter;then look to the heavens and ask"why did I wish for alternate parking"?

2011-09-28 · Flag Flagged
James (Guest)

The question I have is Cohoes has at least 400 side streets where garbage pick-up should start on Monday mornings during rush hour but for some stupid reason they start on Ontario street and block off motorist trying to exit off 787, I have seen near miss accidents while this is happening. Would it not make more sense to start the trash pick-up out on the side streets where they would not interfere with motorist going to work on monday mornings during the rush hour ?

2013-03-06 · Flag Flagged
anonymous (Guest)

The problem with Cohoes is that there are too many narrow streets where parking is allowed on both sides of the street.

Also, many of the streets that whould be One-Way, are not.

The streets in this city are so narrow as it is, that there is no reason why most of them should be Two-Way!

And furthermore, most of the One-Ways we already have don't even make any sense:

-Why is Congress St. only One-Way for half of it?
-Why are the streets on Cohoes Hill, like Willow St., Worth St., and Summit St., and Johnston St. only One-Way for half of it and then Two-Way on the rest?
-Why are some of the alleyways Two-Way and some are One-Way when they are both the same width?!

This doesn't make any sense!

It's high time this City starts looking at totally updating our streets!

It's time to stop saying "Oh, it's always been that way. It's good enough. It's never gonna change..." then that's EXACTLY what's gonna happen. WE need to change it! WE need to get better City leaders in office who will REPAIR things and stop complaining that they don't get any money from the State. DO WITHOUT IT! Get off your @#$% and fix it YOURSELF!!

Our streets are collapsing, water mains are breaking because they're so old... And if this City thinks tourists are gonna want to come here and drive on bumpy, crumbling streets with tree limbs hanging down, broken sidewalks, and cars parked anywhere the heck they want to, I think they're sadly mistaken.

The City has given the OK to refurbish the old Armory into a Brew Pub... I say, "Great!" but then I look at the shambles of the decrepit streets and houses and lack of parking and everything else around it, and I say, "Who would want to come here and see all of this urban decay?"

2013-03-11 · Flag Flagged

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STREETLIGHT OUT AT 7 GARNER ST. Open

7 Garner Street Cohoes, NY - Cohoes

The streetlight is out at 7 Garner Street.

2013-01-28 · Reported by anonymous (Guest) · · Flag Flagged

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Too Many Abandoned Buildings on this Corner! Open

4 Willow St Cohoes, NY - Cohoes

4 Willow St. is one of the approximately 5 or 6 abandoned buildings near the corner of Vliet St.

Abandoned buildings are dangerous because of fire issues or building collapses, not to mention squatters could be living in them illegally as well. Children could be playing in them and get hurt and then who's responsible?

Is the City of Cohoes responsible? Is the landlord responsible? Who is responsible for the upkeep of these empty buildings? Who is paying the property and school taxes?

If nobody is willing to step forward and either repair or demolish these empty buildings, the City of Cohoes is just asking for a lawsuit when someone gets hurt or killed!

2013-02-25 · Reported by Anonymous · · Flag Flagged

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