Bethlehem and Albany representatives and area residents are urging the state Department of Transportation to make safety improvements to State Route 85, calling the roadway a “corridor of crisis and heartbreak.”
Bethlehem Town Board member David DeCancio and Albany Common Councilman Jack Flynn submitted a petition to the DOT signed by more 1,000 people.
The petition makes three corrective action demands: a comprehensive safety audit of the highway with findings publicly released within 30 days; immediate funding for interim safety measures to mitigate risk; and a fully funded, permanent safety plan to re-engineer the corridor…