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People are using the shoulder of the road at Adams Fairacre Farm as a turning lane. If one turns from the traffic lane, one risks being hit by a car traveling on the shoulder. This is a dangerous situation. Either mark the shoulder as off limits or put in a right turn lane for the safety of everyone!
35 Comments
Frank C. Petramale (Guest)
I will let the Town Police know and will also forward it to the state dot. this problem has been going on since adams has opened.
Frank C Petramale
Superintendent of Highways
Town of Ulster
Peter (Guest)
kev50hum (Guest)
Robert (Registered User)
I was nearly hit a few weeks back turning into Adams.
Please, fix this issue! How hard is it to put in a right turning lane that will prevent accidents?
catsuny (Guest)
The DOT needs to put a median in place to force the drivers to stay in the proper lanes or a guard rail,a wire highlighted down the center.The town of Ulster [police show up for speeders when there is no traffic
but when theres heavey duty traffic there isnt a cop in site or a state trooper. The constant cutting off is a huge serious problem .SO to our local police officers be there when it is busy left is for left and right is for right the area is well accomadating for the situation to start with.. DOT do your job and fix this its just time before someone gets killed because of the cutting off and the speed use to do it..
macwhiz (Guest)
This should definitely be marked as a right-turn lane. It happens so often because there is so much traffic flowing this way; if everyone obeyed the roadway markings, I suspect traffic would become much worse on 9W. If traffic backed up on 9W, it would become difficult, or even impossible, to use the entrance/exit ramp from 9W North to Route 209. It's already very difficult to get into the right lane with all the traffic weaving at that cloverleaf intersection.
There's room here for a right-turn lane, and even if the town had to take land by eminent domain, I doubt there'd be much of a fuss -- it's not a particularly valuable strip of land. Not much else could be built upon it anyway.
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Brett Karner (Guest)
buford (Guest)
doran (Guest)
Anonymous (Guest)
http://law.justia.com/newyork/codes/vehicle-traffic/vat01160_1160.html
In (a), it states that a proper right turn can legally be executed from the right shoulder, provided that it is authorised.
That having been said, it does make sense for intersections/driveways such as this to have an actual "right-turn lane" so that people wishing to turn into Adams' may have a properly-marked, clearly-visible staging area to wait until it is safe to make their turn.
Anonymous (Guest)
Sharon Hoferer (Guest)
AVB (Guest)
Second, This should definitely be addressed when the town completes the mall road to Grant Ave. Possibly a different entranced into Adams parking lot? and close the existing one.
In the mean time, an inexpensive fix is just a few "Jersey Barriers"or curbing, placed at an angle, on the end of the shoulder, forcing cars to only turn right from the right lane. essentially, closing the shoulder, at the entrance to the parking lot. This in conjunction with ,proper timing of the light, with the new one installed at Quick Check should make life a whole lot easier.
For the people who feel justified driving on the shoulder because they just don't have the time to wait, Too BAD!
it is no more of a wait at Schwenk Dr. into the plaza.
Those few seconds you save are Not worth the risk of a crash that might injure someone.
Sharon Hoferer (Guest)
Sooz (Guest)
Anonymous (Guest)
The dangerous thing about this turn is that there is no Right Turn Only lane, so drivers squeeze in on the shoulder, only to cut off people who are in the correct driving lane who want to turn right.
How hard would it be to get a striping truck there and make a Right Turn Only lane, so that people could have an actual lane in which to turn from?
Supreme78 (Guest)
Dave (Guest)
Sharon Hoferer (Guest)
Jean (Guest)
Sharon Hoferer (Guest)
Ziji (Guest)
You are as frustrated as everyone else who has commented on this issue. Maybe the "VIGILANTES" need to regroup , we will make our own sign indicating you MUST use the shoulder if you want to turn into Adams
Over a year ago I complained on this blog about the lack of WALK signals at the Trailways Bus Station intersection in Kingston...no action what so ever
anonymous (Guest)
They should use cement medians to correct the whole stretch, including passing from the left lane ONLY, with the arrow then speeding up to cut fast into the right lane ......when someone gets seriouslyl hurt then just maybe then something will be done,as usual a lawsuit always follows..
This situation is done soley by the public driving as they want to regardless of the rules of the road and safety....Adams isnt really to blame it is the driving public and they are extremely careless
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anonymous (Guest)
You know, it figures that we would still have to be talking about this after 2 1/2 years without anything being done about it! The pace of repairs/replacements/upgrades to our roads and bridges in this town is GLACIAL! I mean, look how long it took for anything to even come to the table on the Washington Ave./Hurley Ave. debacle!
As far as I'm concerned, the entire Route 209/9W/Mall Entrance and all its ancillary multitude of driveways and other little roads surrounding it, need to be COMPLETELY upgraded. Those roads are pretty much exactly the way they have been since the 1970's, and SEVERELY need to be modernized! Better shoulders, better lighting, more-modern enter and exit ramps, improved reflectors and curbs, more-appealing landscaping... These are all the things that are essential for the entrance into a town in order to be welcoming and viable for the "tourism" the county is pushing for so badly-- not the rocky, dusty, shabby, pothole-filled, decrepit logging-trail roads we have in this area now!
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