New York

[kalvado]

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There is a discussion of a company which wants to raze newly built apartment complex and chop some Pine Bush in Albany for a new fab. Because they got the money!

Wait what?  I'm familiar with the one on the south end that's become controversial (I think near the Thruway?)... there's another one?

That's a totally different story, and it's on a rumor level yet, I think nothing is officially public

So...from whence the rumors?

Something about me not being sure if it falls  under my non disclosure...

*blinks*

Erm, if that was an issue, you shouldn't have said something in the first place.

Maybe. But I don't know anything officially...

[vdeane]

I'm trying to figure out which apartments fit the criteria of being new and around the Pine Bush.  Could the The Apex at Crossgates, which I've heard negative things about.  Hopefully not the Landmark Albany (which is near the Nanotech complex), which is on my (very) short list of potential places to move to if I decide (or am forced to by the housing market) to continue renting, as staying where I am is extremely undesirable due to bad maintenance/management.

[Rothman]

I'm trying to figure out which apartments fit the criteria of being new and around the Pine Bush.  Could the The Apex at Crossgates, which I've heard negative things about.  Hopefully not the Landmark Albany (which is near the Nanotech complex), which is on my (very) short list of potential places to move to if I decide (or am forced to by the housing market) to continue renting, as staying where I am is extremely undesirable due to bad maintenance/management.

I wouldn't worry about what kalvado said.

[kalvado]

I'm trying to figure out which apartments fit the criteria of being new and around the Pine Bush.  Could the The Apex at Crossgates, which I've heard negative things about.  Hopefully not the Landmark Albany (which is near the Nanotech complex), which is on my (very) short list of potential places to move to if I decide (or am forced to by the housing market) to continue renting, as staying where I am is extremely undesirable due to bad maintenance/management.

I wouldn't worry about what kalvado said.

I would say that chances of rumors ending up with actual concrete are much less than 100%. Partially because localities may be unimpressed with AI money. That was exactly the original message re what Micron may ask for vs what NYSDOT would do.

[Rothman]

I'm trying to figure out which apartments fit the criteria of being new and around the Pine Bush.  Could the The Apex at Crossgates, which I've heard negative things about.  Hopefully not the Landmark Albany (which is near the Nanotech complex), which is on my (very) short list of potential places to move to if I decide (or am forced to by the housing market) to continue renting, as staying where I am is extremely undesirable due to bad maintenance/management.

I wouldn't worry about what kalvado said.

I would say that chances of rumors ending up with actual concrete are much less than 100%. Partially because localities may be unimpressed with AI money. That was exactly the original message re what Micron may ask for vs what NYSDOT would do.

And Fab 1 is being built, so Micron is well-beyond the kalvado-shouldn't-have-spread-the-rumor stage. ;D

[vdeane]

Interestingly enough, I ran into a site that lists AI companies and how profitable they are.  Some, like Amazon and Google, are losing unbelievable amounts of money, but others are less imbalanced and Micron is one of three actually making a profit (along with AMD and Nvidia).  So a bust would probably affect the scale of their operations but probably not bring them under unless they're unprepared for it.

https://isaiprofitable.com

[roadman65]

Why does NYSDOT hold US 11 to different signing standards than both US 4 and US 62?

Both even numbered US routes are signed N-S due to their awkward alignments as both run more north- south than east to west.  US 11 does run north and south paralleling I-81, but turns E-W between Watertown and Rouses Point.

Considering that US 11 does run E-W for a much longer distance than US 4 does in the state as N-S, I would say that signing the route differently between Watertown and the Canadian Border would be warranted.

 Plus its awkward in some places especially at NY 37 in Watertown.  EB NY 37 heads to the west of US 11 which is counter logical as east routes should head to the right of north except on interstate beltways or other loop routes.  Even states like Texas and Florida change cardinal directions hence when the route's alignment changes for a considerable distance.

To me the same hierarchy is using different practices under the same circumstances/

[vdeane]

Why does NYSDOT hold US 11 to different signing standards than both US 4 and US 62?

Both even numbered US routes are signed N-S due to their awkward alignments as both run more north- south than east to west.  US 11 does run north and south paralleling I-81, but turns E-W between Watertown and Rouses Point.

Considering that US 11 does run E-W for a much longer distance than US 4 does in the state as N-S, I would say that signing the route differently between Watertown and the Canadian Border would be warranted.

 Plus its awkward in some places especially at NY 37 in Watertown.  EB NY 37 heads to the west of US 11 which is counter logical as east routes should head to the right of north except on interstate beltways or other loop routes.  Even states like Texas and Florida change cardinal directions hence when the route's alignment changes for a considerable distance.

To me the same hierarchy is using different practices under the same circumstances/

You really need to look more at percents than raw numbers.  US 4's north-south distance is only "short" because it doesn't spend nearly as much time in the state as US 11.  The overwhelming majority of the route is pure north-south with only the last 6 miles east of Whitehall being east-west.  US 11 is, at worst, a 50/50 split, and that's only if you count the whole distance beyond Watertown as east-west.  In reality, it's a diagonal up until around Potsdam or so, which leaves only 25% of the route as true east-west.  US 62, meanwhile, is pure north-south.  To the extent it has any east-west mileage at all, it's in the wrong direction.

As for "heading east from a 'north' direction should be to the right", that strikes me as tolbs levels of nitpicking.  In the real world, route directions can be messy, especially in places where the roads predate any system of surveying land in grids (now that I think of it, I wonder if this is why Europe doesn't use route directions).  I don't see why NY 37 should have have three sets of direction markers just to satisfy such a decree.  Even NY 8 doesn't change directions, and it has much more reason to (and the less said about NY 28, the better).

[froggie]

By that I was mostly referring to widening. I-81/NY 31 and I-481 Exit 2 are really the only interchanges where I could see major changes.

IIRC there was a proposal related to Micron involving building a new interchange between exits 98 and 102, I think at Sneller Road.  I've also read articles mentioning Micron wanting massive widening on NY 31 and new roadway connections; those might be less likely.

We'll see what happens...

31 between Clay and Cicero has needed 4-laning for over 20 years.  If the Micron project actually jump-starts that, I don't see an issue.

Of course, this being New York...