All are welcome. Together let’s explore ways to encourage redevelopment, spur economic activity, and improve access, safety, and mobility for everyone.
ALBANY, NY March 20, 2025 – The Capital Region Transportation Council (the Transportation Council), along with the Town of Colonie, is hosting a public meeting on Wednesday, April 9, 2025 from 4:00-6:00 p.m. at the Midway Fire Station Hall located at 1956 Central Avenue, Albany, NY 12205. The purpose of the meeting is to share conceptual design alternatives for the Central Ave West Corridor Study and receive feedback from the public. This study focuses on examining future land use and transportation concepts for a three-mile segment of Central Avenue in the Town of Colonie from New Karner Road to the Niskayuna town line.
This public meeting will be in-person, open house style, and community members are welcome to stop by anytime between 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. A poster gallery will share draft concepts for potential roadway and development improvements. Project team members will be available to discuss the concepts and answer questions. A formal presentation will not be given.
The project team welcomes all to this public meeting and understands that accessible meetings benefit people with and without disabilities. If you require any assistive technologies, language translation, American Sign Language interpretation, and/or adaptive strategies to attend and engage, please contact Liz Podowski King with Highland Planning at 585-649-1210 or liz@highland-planning.com at least three (3) business days prior to the meeting.
For other opportunities to provide input, including an online comment form to provide feedback and an interactive map, please visit: www.coloniecentralavestudy.org.
Central Avenue (NY State Route 5) is a five-lane roadway that serves as a historically important connection between Schenectady and Albany and provides local access to commercial areas and residential neighborhoods in the Town of Colonie. As transportation patterns and habits have changed over time, the western portion of Central Avenue (from New Karner Road to the Colonie-Niskayuna boundary) is now characterized by low-density land uses, roadside parking lots, and numerous driveways and side streets.
Central Avenue in the study area carries approximately 23,300 vehicles per day. It is a straight road segment with few traffic signals to moderate traffic speed, leading to concerns about speeding, as well as the safety of pedestrians and cyclists. The project team is exploring land use and transportation concepts for this corridor to facilitate mixed-use redevelopment, spur economic activity, improve access management, and improve safety and mobility for all roadway users, including drivers, pedestrians, cyclists, and transit riders. The project will conclude with the development of a preferred corridor concept and related implementation plan.
Note: Central Avenue in the Town of Colonie is owned and maintained by NYSDOT who will be involved in coordination efforts. Central Avenue also carries the Capital District Transportation Authority (CDTA) Red Line Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) route; the study will include coordination with CDTA.
For more information about transportation planning activities at the Transportation Council, visit www.capitalmpo.org. Follow and like the Transportation Council on Facebook, X, Instagram, and LinkedIn.
About the Transportation Council
The Capital Region Transportation Council is the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the geographic area of Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, and Schenectady Counties (except the Town of Moreau and Village of South Glens Falls). The Transportation Council facilitates a transportation planning process as required by federal law and supported with federal funding.
The Transportation Council is committed to ensuring that no person is excluded from participation in, or denied the benefits of, its metropolitan transportation planning process on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, economic status, or sexual orientation.
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