Local Option to Advance Project Design

 

The 1999-04 TIP fully allocates the available federal-aid funding in the Capital District in the five-year period to projects. However, project expenditures are not precisely balanced with available funding on a yearly basis. Some programming capacity in the first three years of the program was used to advance the preliminary engineering for non-NYSDOT sponsored projects, allowing the use of local resources or consultants to design projects off the state system. An established reimbursement procedure and Municipal Agreement process will be followed. Construction funding for these projects was not advanced at this time. This action allows, at local option, work to proceed to ready a project for construction in case an opportunity arises to advance the construction. Advancement of construction explicitly requires demonstration that the integrity of fiscal constraint for the TIP as a whole is upheld. Construction schedule adjustments will be done either in the context of the next routine TIP update or by TIP amendment. The following TIP projects show the preliminary engineering phase of project development in the first three years of the TIP. For this to occur, the understanding is that the sponsoring agency will assume the lead in project development. Delivering the ambitious agenda of projects included in the TIP is a shared responsibility.

 

A list of these projects is in Table 1 on page *.

Table 1

PROJECTS With Local Option to Advance Project Design

 

 

TIP #/PIN

SPONSOR

PROJECT

A235/1043.07

Albany (City)

Route 9 @ Livingston

A338/1754.42

Albany County

Elm Avenue Reconstruction

A339/1754.43

Albany County

Cherry Avenue Reconstruction

A340/1754.44

Albany (City)

Lark Street Reconstruction

A341/1754.45

Albany (City)

Central Avenue Reconstruction

A343/1754.47

Albany International Airport

Pinegrove Avenue Extension

A344/1754.48

Port

Church Street Reconstruction

A345/1754.49

Colonie

Elm Street Bypass

A347/1754.50

Colonie (V)

Elm Street Bypass

A376/1754.60

Albany (City)

Waterfront Pedestrian Bridge

A377/1754.67

Voorheesville

Pedestrian Circulation

R197/1754.69

Rensselaer

Washington Avenue Sidewalks

R198/1754.70

North Greenbush

Brooking, Peck and Pershing Sidewalks

R175/1754.51

Rensselaer

Signal upgrades (ITS)

R178/1754.52

Troy

Troy-Menands Bridge Bicycle Access

R195/1754.59

Troy

South Troy Industrial Park Road

R196/1754.68

Rensselaer County

CR111 Bridge over Hoosick

S144/1754.58

Schenectady (City)

State Street Streetscape

S139/1764.62

Schenectady County

Consaul Road Reconstruction

S140/1754.63

Schenectady (City)

Mohawk-Hudson Bikepath Improvements

S141/1754.65

Schenectady (City)

Rail corridor bridge improvements

S142/1754.64

Schenectady (City)

Kings Road sidewalks

S143/1754.66

Glenville

Lock 8 Bicycle and Pedestrian Access

SA158/1754.71

NYSOPRHP

Peebles Island Bridge (Waterford)

SA131/1754.53

S. Springs

Signal upgrades (ITS)

SA132/1754.54

Saratoga County

CR7 Bridge over Batchellerville Creek

SA133/1754.55

S. Springs

South Broadway/Ballston Ave Reconstruction

SA135/1754.56

Halfmoon

Sitterly and Woodin bike path

SA136/1754.57

S. Springs

Downtown Pedestrian Improvements

SA156/1941.05

Canal Corp.

Mechanicville Terminal Wall