New York State Thruway has large tree clearance program

[cpzilliacus]

TOLLROADSnews: New York State Thruway has large tree clearance program

The New York State Thruway has a large tree clearance program along the roadside in the Poughkeepsie area, 12.5 miles of it between mile markers (MM) 62 and 74.5 and southbound 6.5 miles  between MM68 and MM74.5.  This is at the southern end of the ticket system.

[Duke87]

This was described to us by a traveling engineer as a third-laning project that we should report.

However the only 3rd laning project on the Thruway is up to the northwest in the Albany area.

A Thruway official tells us the extensive tree clearing is part of a safety modernization, not third laning.

i.e.

Some random dude said it was one thing, but then an official source said it was actually something else.

Real high quality reporting there.

[froggie]

Adding onto the "real high quality reporting", the milemarker points place the project north of the Newburgh interchange, when the "southern end of the ticket system" is still another exit further south at Harriman.

[empirestate]

Yeah, "Poughkeepsie area" is a stretch at best, and just plain wrong at medium quality. Never met anyone from Orange County, NY who claimed to live in the Poughkeepsie area.

[SteveG1988]

I love the topic title: "NYST has large tree clearance program"

So, is it a program that is big about removing a lot of trees?

Or is it a program about removing large trees?