Many street lights are out along Hurley Ave, Schwenk Drive, Clinton Avenue, Albany Avenue (near Academy Green and the traffic circle) - making it hazardous since it is very dark at 6:30 a.m. and there are many walkers, bike riders, joggers, etc. wearing dark clothing

I would love to see more effort put into making safe bike paths in and around the Rondout and other recreation areas in Kingston. Biking is free, it gives great pleasure, it's a cardio-vascular workout, and it could bring more people to areas like downtown. Our parks could use some specially designated bike paths too. Eventually would like to see this whole idea expand, but...I know, budget woes...There's other places to ride, but they are away from restaurants or stores. Rondout Harbor,Kingston,NY 12401,USA

I'd love the new bike racks along the Broadway corridor if they didn't collapse when you are trying to chain a bike to one of them.

I recently read the proposal for the new roundabout which is most likely to be installed at the intersection of Albany Ave. and Broadway in Kingston.

I think that any improvements made here will be good ones, because the intersection as it is now is antiquated and confusing to drivers who are unfamiliar with the area.

However, I do have a question about what will become of Interstate 587 (Col. Chandler Dr.)

In the proposal, it states that Interstate 587 should be changed to NY Route 587. My question is, why should it even carry the 587 designation, when it already partially has the NY Route 28 designation? Why not just rename the entire 1-mile section of Col. Chandler all Route 28?
I think it would be less confusing for motorists.

Also, in the proposal, it stated that it was being considered to re-configure Col. Chandler Dr. into a 2-lane road from the current 4 lanes and adding bicycle and pedestrian lanes.

I think this would be counterproductive, because in 20 years, this section would have to be widened again anyway, to accomodate the growth in traffic.

Let's not be penny-wise and pound-foolish about this, Kingston!! THINK LONG-TERM!!!

someone went into a garage and took two bikes, a yellow 10speed with black designs, and more importantly a RED 70's frame 10 speed with GREY forks. it's my friends bike, and it was given to him by his father who owned it since he was young. been missing since last weekend (nov 5th-ish)!

My son had his Redline BMX bike stolen yesterday from over by the high school.
It is a Redline BMX bike and it is orange. There is not a lot of orange bikes
around, especially a redline. If you should see it, please e-mail me. My son saw
it after it was stolen, even got a punch in on the guy who was a lot older, but
he didn't get it back. He only had it for a few weeks, we bought it up in
albany.
Thank You,
Erik

There is a large pothole on Albany Avenue. It is located just over the bridge, in front of the cemetary, as if you were headed for the malls. It is a large hole and will definitely do some damage to a car or bike.

Small children often playing in the street, riding tricycles or bikes. It appears that yards are very small or that they don't have much of a yard to play in at all. I worry that one day a child will be hit by a car going.

Wiltswyk Avenue, just east of the Elmendorfer interchange (right by the abandoned "meeting hall") automobiles are using the location to meet for drug sales and to "use" their drugs.

I have encountered many people doing so, and with the warmer months approaching I am irked by the number of people choosing to get "high" where our daughter rides her bicycle and plays.

The road has in the past, been a "pullover, make a call, get your stuff and get high" road, and I have done my best to end the activity. Yet after a brief hiatus, the junkies are back.

The signs you are looking for are easy to see. A car, pulled to the side of the road, with an occupant (or 2), with their heads down (so they can see what they are rolling or injecting),

The obviousness of the activity could not be more so, as all us homeowners on the block park on our property or infront of it. We don't have young men driving up or walking up to our cars and making a transaction with us. We don't sit in our cars next to an abandoned buildings and we do not keep our heads in our laps, as we don't have a needle we are trying to fill or a blunt we are trying to roll.

My neighbors and I really would like this to end immediately, as the concern for our physical safety and that of our property is first and foremost.

It's simple. The police officers (be it NY State Troopers, UC Sheriffs or Kingston PD) know who lives on the block. They see our cars every time they drive by. When there is a car parked and occupied in front of the meeting house.....it's for no good reason. Those people need to get stopped and searched, and ARRESTED!

Crime and illicit use of narcotics will not be tolerated. NOT IN OUR BACKYARD! We ask for service and protection. We ask that it be done without us having to call and complain. We ask that it be done post-haste. We ask that our children be able to play in their backyard. And we thank you for it! Believe you me, we thank you!!!

Drug activity going on between the bank on Henry Street and Vandeusen Street.. Two young men on small bikes going up and down Vandeusen selling drugs and an older Hispanic man wearing all black with a gray trim jacket running the drugs to cars and people.. Activity started around 11 pm. Also runners going between Henry Bank and Vandeusen and sell drugs.. need more police to watch this area.. behind bank where the sidewalk is..