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NYPA CEO Quiniones makes NY State Canal System Opening Statement
for 2021 Season
DIR By: Doug K
Date: February 4, 2021, 10:05 am
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Hot off the press TODAY... and please see highlighted areas that
clear up some "false facts" that have been floated about lately
regarding the New York State Canal System.
FACT: It's called the Erie Canal... period. No name change, no
hidden conspiracies.
FACT: The NY State Canal Corporation, the Erie Canal and the
Canal Trail system are not funded by Taxpayers, but on profits
from their new parent company, the New York Power Authority, and
the generation & sale of electricity. The new owners of the
property, NYPA, now decide what gets done with their assets to
both preserve Erie Canal Integrity & Safety, and also understand
how it helps to generate those needed profits to continue it's
operation.
FACT: NYPA has a vision for the Erie Canal that is different
than many of it's prior owners, and is working to Reimagine it
for 21st century use.
HTML https://ecna.us/reimagine/
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No Surprise, Facebook group doesn't like NYPA's Opening
Statement for 2021 Canal Season
DIR By: Doug K
Date: February 5, 2021, 3:09 pm
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Expected behavior for a group that can't understand the need for
Dam Maintenance, thinks Unsafe Erie Canal Embankment Dams are
"fake news", and can't figure out they are fighting AGAINST
public safety by trying to stop a Dam Safety Program.
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Let's not forget, its the same group who says that "they" own
the Erie Canal and have the right to do what THEY want with it.
That includes keeping the public who tries to use it, and
neighbors living near it, in a constant state of danger from
unsafe, overgrown, tree covered embankments.
And this also comes from a group who's members complain about
getting hit by a bicycle when they walked on the Canal Trail,
AFTER DARK, when it is supposed to be closed.... It's a Dawn to
Dusk Opening for the Empire State Trail System folks.
Wear a headlamp... $2.49 at Harbor Freight. Better yet, stay off
the trail after dark, when it's supposed to be closed, Erie
Canal Neighbors will thank you.
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Re: NYPA CEO Quiniones makes NY State Canal System Opening
Statement for 2021 Season
DIR By: Doug K
Date: February 7, 2021, 10:13 am
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It appears that this impromptu announcement, by the Head of
NYPA, was made AFTER a statements came out of the last NYSCC &
NYPA Public Meeting where Deputy Director DAVE MELLEN spoke at
length about 2021 Canal Schedules and current ongoing Winter
Maintenance work.
Apparently Mr. Mellen's statements didn't sit well with some
attending that meeting, including his Boss, Mr. Q.
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For those keeping score, this is the same Dave Mellen who
claimed that Erie Canal Neighbors in the Brockport area were in
danger from high-hazard, unsafe, earthen canal embankments back
in late 2017. And the same person who promised those same
Brockport neighbors along the canal embankments, that they would
have their privacy & security restored, with a natural screening
barrier that would be planted sometime in 2019-2020.
Many of those Erie Canal Neighbors believed Mr. Mellen, which in
hindsight seems to have been just a ploy by the NYS Canal
Corporation to silence opposition to their embankment work.
And still to this day those same neighbors have NO privacy
screening barrier planted between the Empire Trail "pedestrians"
and have had their lives and properties overrun by the
"Reimagined Erie Canal"
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