good idea

Change your driving habits and slow down. Perhaps, 55 mph is too fast. There is plenty of visibility to see people turning or waiting to turn.

Wouldn't it make more sense to have a turning lane southbound?

Southbound goes up the hill where the highway actually opens to two lanes. Northbound doesn't even have a passing area but folks still try to go around us folks turning into East Kingston. The Northbound side is ABSOLUTELY where we need the turn lane.

i agree 110 %!!!!!

Change your driving habits and slow down. Perhaps, 55 mph is too fast. There is plenty of visibility to see people turning or waiting to turn.
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about 16 hours ago

if you're almost rear ending people then YOU need to change your driving habits. they have the right of way. if you rear end somebody .... then it's YOUR fault!!!! call your insurance company .... let us know how you make out with that!!

Just to clarify, I live in East Kingston. I'm one of the people being almost rear ended. The people dive-bombing me and my fellow East Kingstonites are the same type of drivers that refuse to move to a CLEAR left lane when they see someone merging onto the highway. I know its not a law (the driver already on the highway has the right of way) but why can't we extend a courtesy to our fellow drivers? It all boils down to common sense while obeying the law. I always look both ways before entering an intersection on a green light. I have the right of way but common sense dictates that not everyone pays attention all the time. Isn't it safer and beneficial to all in the big picture to wait for the guy running the red light than to assert my rights and continue with my right of way?

Yeah I love waiting 15 minutes to get out of main street...

Maybe you can get Callanan to take care of this ..They have closed their eyes to the people of East Kingston..it is very CLOSE to their drive/turn off. Why not do something for the safety in East Kingston even if they don't seem to be interested in cracked basements and dust thai they say is controled..

Nothing to consider. Gov doesnt have money for that kind of stuff. They can barely maintain what they have let alone build something new.

Hey, ads34, all that's needed is some reflective white paint. Nothing to build. Hell, if they give it to me, i'll paint the lines in myself. But as far as being a non-issue, I can tell you don't live in East Kingston so kindly mind your own neighborhood if you've nothing constructive to add.

As far as callanan is concerned, maybe they should be ordered by our local gov't to make a less dangerous access road into East Kingston. A penalty of sorts for their careless dumping of dangerous waste in all of out backyards.They're already blasting and ignoring our rights as home-owners. Why not make them blast a road down here?

Nobody is going to do anything about this until there are a few fatalities. When Town of Ulster gets tired of being sued for a dangerous intersection, maybe they'll install a light or have an officer swing by to watch some of the near-misses.

Govt's do not get sued that much and when they do it is usually tossed out. Rarely do they pay a claim for anything. Everybody has the opposite opinion and it is not true.