As you know, the City completed a four lane extension of !-89 ending a few feet short of Home Ave in the mid 1980s. For thirty years, the City denied residents the use of this road, keeping it closed. This has meant that trucks that could easily leave the Industrial Park for points south and east via the interstate and Shelburne Road have had to navigate Flynn and Home Avenue, or the one-lane bridge over the RR tracks. The Pine Street Coalition, a group of residents, has demanded that the City, which is finally moving ahead with this "Champlain Parkway", must bring the public into the planning process, update the stale 2006 environmental impact statement, and build a better, safer roadway.

The Coalition will be organizing tours of the Parkway route on Saturday, September 15, 10 am, with the assembly point the defacto "parking lot" at the intersection of Pine Street and the derelict Parkway. Walkers and cyclists will form two groups to look over the roadway route and discuss a series of proposals that would, if adopted, save the City millions, create safe streets with separate bike/walk/drive lanes, and preserve both our Enterprise Zone for jobs and tax income while maintaining Englesby Brook as a needed storm water catchment and park.

Please join us! Both the Coalition and private parties are ready to use court proceedings to prevent the construction of an unsafe Parkway that wastes land and money and severs the southwest corner of the city from the commercial area directly to the south.

Dec 26, 2024, 10 AM to 12 PM

Dec 27, 2024, 6:45 to 10 PM

Dec 28, 2024, 10 AM to 12 PM