![]() ![]() Not certain how they got into this (PA) area - I know the Mass. I know I've seen this decor in at least a couple stores but not sure off the top of my head which ones, though one may have been the Hudson (Greenport) store that closed and is now ShopRite (with the flag design behind the name on the glass front, even though that is the more square style unlike this one with the point). There is also at least one other small store that hasn't been redone (Cohoes) last I knew. and Madison Ave.) that are both very small (probably dating back to Central Markets days, and in areas where expansion/replacement is not an option). They also managed to renovate two stores in Albany proper (Delaware Ave. They have started to (slowly) convert them to that Market 32 banner, but it seems to have kind of "stalled out" as of late, though we also have at least two (Chatham and Shaker Road in Albany) that are signed as Price Chopper but opened (a replacement for a store they bought from Grand Union, the other an enlarged former Grand Union in that order) just a short time before the new name was announced, and those two have decor very similar to the Market 32 style. ![]() Try again later.Obviously, we have a large number of Price Chopper stores around here, being just a bit south of Albany (which is only a few miles from Schenectady). An error has occurred the feed is probably down.Bethlehem Delaware Avenue Traffic Calming Project (2).The remaining seventy thousand from the city. Worden says some of MATCC’s funds for the project have come from St. MATCC procured approximately thirty thousand dollars from various entities. Hammer says the projected cost of the study is near one hundred thousand dollars, funded by both the city of Albany and MATCC. The RTP says, “All alternatives shall include and use potential options for traffic including but not limited to lane reduction or reassignment, improving motor vehicle safety, improving pedestrian access and safety, and improving/adding bicycle amenities on this corridor.” The study must be based upon sound data and information on peak hourly/daily traffic distribution, street geometry, traffic signal operation, transit, pedestrian, and bicycle travel for Madison Avenue and its intersecting roadways.” This means that if traffic calming measures are installed- they may be separate from what the MATCC currently asks. ![]() “ shall identify and evaluate a minimum of three (3) alternatives and recommend the best lane striping, signage and traffic signal treatments for this corridor. The city’s RFP asks bidding firms to be able to produce three traffic calming options. Allen Street as well as Western Avenue between S. The project description from the City of Albany’s RFP states that the project, “is to determine the most effective multi-modal lane configuration for the Madison Avenue corridor between Lark Street and S. Allen, and amenities for cycling (bike lanes – yes please!) according to Virginia Hammer the ADHOC Chair of the MATCC. The committee asks the city to reduce the number of lanes from four to two, install a third (middle) lane which may be used as a turning lane or emergency lane for quick response teams, an overhaul of the Madison and Western split at S. Allen St onto Western Ave until Manning Blvd. MATCC is calling on the City of Albany to refurbish Madison Ave between Lark St and S. He told me that there is a committee of people called the Madison Avenue Traffic Calming Committee (MATCC), which he is a part of. I quickly jumped to the phone to ask Worden questions. Traffic Calming, Madison Ave, responses to the city, RFP… WTF? Word has it that there were responses to the city on the RFP for the traffic study for “traffic calming” on Madison. The president of the Albany Bicycle Coalition (ABC), Lorenz Worden, sent me an email the other day which states, ![]()
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