On January 16, Gossips reported that the powerlines to service the EV chargers planned for the parking lot at the Columbia County courthouse would not run on poles installed on the 300 block of Allen Street--a plan that entailed the extensive pruning of the silver maple at 342 Allen Street and the removal of two trees at 357 Allen Street: "Injury and Destruction Averted."
What wasn't known at the time the post was published was that the night before, on January 15, the alternate route for the powerlines had been announced at the Board of Supervisors Public Works Committee meeting. The new plan is to route the powerlines from Third Street along Partition Street, across West Court Street, and on to the parking lot. One wonders where they plan to install the poles and how much pruning will be involved in running the powerlines.
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Why does the Board of Supervisors repeatedly treat the City of Hudson with such contempt? I'm surprised they haven't turned the public square into a transfer station.
ReplyDeleteMy theory? To many of the old local families in places like Kinderhook, Chatham, Copake, etc., a common story you will hear from them is that, back in the day, “you would never want to go into Hudson. It was a dump and seedy.” They would only make a short trip when necessary for the bank, DMV, or other business at the county seat. It was place to have a landfill as well as place to concentrate all low income housing in the county and keep it out of their towns. I think that attitude still holds with some of the locals in the rest of the county, many who become their town supervisors. And since Hudson’s revitalization of the past few decades they now view it as full of silly rich nyc liberals and mostly use us as a piggy bank for mortgage, property and sales taxes. I also get the sense that they’re used to not getting much attention or push back from the general citizenry and choose to steamroll over the recent wave of activism from a more concerned population, see also: the bridge at Stuyvesant Falls, the Dollar General in Stockport. So it doesn’t just happen in Hudson.
DeleteThank you. Yes, have heard this sentiment echoed repeatedly. Time for old thinking to go the way of the Dodo. "However long the night, the dawn will break... " Time for change.
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