6. Transportation

6. TRANSPORTATION

6.1 Overview

The Town of Poughkeepsie grew from its location along the Hudson River which allowed access to the New York City and Albany markets via waterborne transportation. Various roads emanated from the City out into the Town, providing access to the hamlets, Town agricultural areas and beyond. North and South Roads (formerly Old Albany Post Road) provided a major travel route which paralleled the Hudson River. Roads that have long been in existence in the Town, with minor alignment changes, have also included Violet Avenue, Cottage Road, Creek Road, Salt Point Turnpike, Van Wagener Road, Bower Road, Dutchess Turnpike (Route 44), Overocker Road, Haight Avenue (Route 55), Raymond Avenue, New Hackensack Road, Cedar Avenue, Spackenkill Road, Vassar Road (Route 77), Spring Road, Sheafe Road, Camelot Road (which once ended at the Hudson River), and Channingville Road, as well as the minor roads that were found in the historic hamlets, including New Hamburg, Channingville, Manchester, and Rochdale. As shown in Historic Resources section, many of the Town’s older homes can be found along these older historic road alignments.

Today, the Town of Poughkeepsie’s primary transportation route is the U.S. Route 9 corridor, which provides access to the Mid-Hudson Bridge and northern Dutchess County, as well as U.S Route 84 and the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge to the south. Route 44 and 55 provide east-west access to the Taconic State Parkway, which provides commuter access to the New York City metropolitan region. Regionally, the Town is in relatively close proximity to Stewart International Airport in the Town of New Windsor. Amtrak and Metro-North train lines provide rail service to the Town with a major station located in New Hamburg and the City of Poughkeepsie. The Hudson Valley Regional Airport is just on the other side of the Town’s easterly border with the Town of Wappinger and is located on the east side of the Hudson River. While growth in the Town may have been spurred by the growth of industry along the Hudson River there are few locations in the Town which provide access to boating facilities, except in New Hamburg, from the canoe club at the end of Rivercrest Court, from Waterworks Road and from Clear Water Drive in Quiet Cove Riverfront Park. A dock at Waryas Park in the City of Poughkeepsie also contains docks for motorized vessels. The following chapter provides a more detailed overview of transportation in the Town of Poughkeepsie. While the Town has higher public and active transit rates than the rest of Dutchess County, it is still far lower than the rate for the rest of New York State. A significant portion of long-distance commuters’ travel by train, but even these residents must still drive to the station. The 2007 Plan focused heavily on the creation of walkable town centers and roads that would greatly increase walking opportunities in the Town. Additional walking opportunities within areas intended to accommodate additional employment and mixed use development, following the goals for the 2007 Comprehensive Plan, may be able to reduce the amount of long distance commuting and increase the number of active mass transit users, which would help to minimize road congestion and impacts to the environment.

6.2. Transportation Planning

6.2.1 Moving Dutchess 2 The Dutchess County Transportation Council (DCTC) is the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the Poughkeepsie Metropolitan Area and plays a role in the three-county Mid-Hudson Valley Transportation Management Area (TMA). The DCTC manages transportation improvements and recommendations through “Moving Dutchess 2”, the DCTC’s transportation plan1. Recommendations are divided into short‐range (2016‐2020), mid‐range (2021‐2030), and long‐range (2031‐2040) time periods, which relate to the project’s priority and complexity, as well as funding availability. The transportation plan outlines a “preservation-based approach” to address transportation safety and mobility, and mostly focuses on highway maintenance. Two major initiatives are proposed which are outside the Town of Poughkeepsie, but which would have implications for regional access into the Town: redesigning the Route 9/44/55 interchange in the City of Poughkeepsie, and redesigning the I‐84/Route 9D interchange in the Town of Fishkill. The planning process is underway for this improvement, and participants have been asked to provide comments on the alignments.

As per the DCTC plan, the Town is located within the “Hudson Corridor”. The Hudson Corridor, linking Beacon with Poughkeepsie, has been the traditional focus of activity in the county. This corridor contains the most robust transportation network, including the Routes 9, 9D, and 9G highways, Amtrak and Metro-North Railroad rail service, and the heaviest concentration of local and regional bus service. The NYS Bridge Authority also maintains three bridges that connect Dutchess to Orange and Ulster counties (the Newburgh-Beacon Bridge, Mid-Hudson Bridge, and Kingston Rhinecliff Bridge). The corridor supports freight rail service along the river and is home to Dutchess County Airport.

Recommendations incorporated into the Transportation Plan for the 25-year period from 2016- 2040 and which are specific to the Town of Poughkeepsie include:

• Creating a shared‐use path along the west side of Zack’s Way/Boardman Rd. between Hooker Ave./New Hackensack Rd. and Spackenkill Rd. in the Town of Poughkeepsie;

1 https://www.dutchessny.gov/Departments/Transportation-Council/Transportation-Plan.htm#Con2 • Installing sidewalks on Route 9 from Mesier Ave. in the Village of Wappingers Falls north to IBM Rd. in the Town of Poughkeepsie, and constructing a new pedestrian bridge on Route 9 over the Wappinger Creek; • Installing a sidewalk on Route 113 (Spackenkill Rd.) in the Town of Poughkeepsie from Croft Rd. to Boardman Road; • Installing sidewalks on Route 9 from Marist College to Quiet Cove Park and further north to CR 40A (St. Andrews Rd.) (1,750 feet). • Installing a sidewalk on the west side of Creek Rd. from Smith St. to Dutchess Community College (DCC), including a sidewalk extension on Smith St. to Creek Rd. (3,400 feet) with appropriate landscaping and pedestrian amenities. Also improve sight distance for left turns onto Creek Rd and from Creek Rd to the rail trail. • Work with property owners to complete the Hudson River Greenway Trail from Quiet Cove Park at the Hyde Park Town line south to the Locust Grove Historic Site. Include connections to the Walkway elevator and around Kaal Rock Point (8,000 feet). • Evaluate and coordinate traffic signal timings on Route 9D between I-84 and Route 9.

The Plan also describes various unfunded projects, many of which are sidewalk related.

6.2.2 Complete Streets On August 15, 2011, the “Complete Streets” bill was signed into law and it amended the New York State Highway Law to add Section 331. The Complete Streets amendment was intended to achieve a cleaner, greener transportation system and to consider the needs of all users including pedestrian, bicyclists, motorists, users of public transportation, and citizens of all ages and disabilities. This law requires that all state, county, and local transportation projects that are undertaken by the State Department of Transportation, and projects that receive federal and state funding utilize complete street design features in planning, design, construction, reconstruction, and rehabilitation of streets. The legislation is intended to provide health benefits from increasing active forms of transportation while decreasing congestion and air pollution.

Complete Streets are designed and operated to enable safe access for all users of roads rather than heavily focusing on motorists. These designs emphasize the concepts of “traffic calming” to slow vehicular traffic and encourage safe multi-modal interactions. There are many different techniques that can be utilized to create complete streets including the addition of sidewalks, separate bike lanes or wide paved shoulders for them, dedicated bus lanes, accessible public transportation stops, frequent and safe crosswalks, median islands, curb extensions, and roundabouts. Complete Street design is a sustainable practice that can improve safety, encourage walking and bicycling which can improve health, lower transportation costs by providing more cost-effective options, and create strong and livable communities. Map 14 shows accident data in the Town and provides a basis to analyze streets that may benefit from traffic calming techniques. 6.3. Commuting Patterns

The U.S. Census Bureau collects data on commuting or “journey to work” characteristics, including “means of transportation to work.” While the journey to work data do not encompass all travel trips made by people within the Town, the data can assist in understanding the modal preferences and patterns of people within one of the largest users of transportation: commuters. Table 30 shows commuting data from the 2009 and 2017 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimate for the Town of Poughkeepsie.

Table 30. MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION TO WORK 2009 ACS 5-Yr 2017 ACS 5-Yr Difference Means of Transportation Est. Est.

Workers 16 years and over 20,549 persons 21,617 persons 1,068 persons

Drove alone 76.6% 72.5% -4.1

Carpooled 7.7% 6.1% -1.6

Public Transportation 2.7% 4.8% +2.1

Other (worked at home, bicycle, 13.0% 16.6% +3.6 walk)

Total 100% 100% -

Source: 2013-2017 American Community Survey 5-Year Estimates.

The American Community Survey collects data regarding residents’ travel time to work and this data is recorded in the ACS five-year estimates. The travel time to work data for Poughkeepsie is shown in Table 31. Within Poughkeepsie, the average travel time to work in 2017 was 26.4 minutes. In 2017, a commute time of 10-14 minutes was the most common commute time with 21.6 percent of residents, followed 15 - 19 minutes (14.9%), and 60 or more minutes (12.8%). Mean travel time has increased by 2.2 minutes. Commuting time is a reflection of employment locations.

Table 31. TRAVEL TIME TO WORK 2010 ACS 5-Yr 2017 ACS 5-Yr Travel Time Est. Est. Percentage Percentage

Less than 10 20.7% 17.4% minutes

10 – 14 minutes 18.5% 21.6%

15 – 19 minutes 17.1% 14.9%

20 - 24 minutes 10.6% 12.0%

25 – 29 minutes 5.0% 5.4%

30 – 34 minutes 8.0% 7.4%

35 – 44 minutes 4.3% 3.5%

45 – 59 minutes 4.5% 4.9%

Over 60 minutes 11.2% 12.8%

Mean travel time 24.2 26.4 (minutes)

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020.

Most households within the Town own multiple cars. Of households in the Town, 75.5% own two (2) or more cars, compared to 44.8% in the City of Poughkeepsie, 76.4% for Dutchess County, and 51.9% in all of New York.

Figure 1. Commute Distance/Direction of Town Residents, 2015.

Of Town residents, 50% live less than 10 miles in any direction of their job, and 23.4% live more than 50 miles from their job. Most of these long-distance commuters travel to the south, indicating Westchester County and New York City as employment destinations. This is typical, as Dutchess County is a destination for many who seek “space” but still wish to work in New York City for higher wages.

6.4 Roads

6.4.1. NYS DOT Functional Classification There are approximately 181.23 miles of roads within the Town of Poughkeepsie. In New York, roads are grouped into “functional classes” by the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) according to the level and character of service they provide. A roadway’s classification defines its importance within the overall network and is used to determine which roads are eligible for federal funding under the Federal Highway Administration Surface Transportation Program. The NYSDOT prepares Functional Class Maps for the entire state roadway system. Within the system, there are six classifications of roads: Principal Arterial Interstate, Principal Arterial Expressway, Principal Arterial, Minor Arterial, Major Collector, Minor Collector, and Local. In Poughkeepsie, there is a combination of Principal Arterials, Minor Arterials, Major Collectors, and Local roads. All roadway classifications are Federal Aid eligible, except for local roads. Additionally, the NYSDOT Functional Class Maps also classify urban areas which areas receive additional funding; much of the Town as well as the City of Poughkeepsie are in a designated urban area. Approximately 67.8 percent, or nearly 123 miles of the roads in the Town, are classified as local roads. Table 34 below and Map 15 NYS DOT Functional Classifications, indicate the hierarchical classification and location of roads within the Town.

Table 32. TOWNWIDE FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF ROADS Functional Class Miles Percent

Principal Arterial - Other 14.2 7.8%

Minor Arterial 18.03 9.9%

Major Collector 26.14 14.5%

Local 122.86 67.8%

Total 181.23 100%

Source: NYSDOT, 2020.

Principal Arterial Other (No control of access): These roads serve the major centers of activity of a metropolitan area, the highest traffic volume corridors; carry a high proportion of the total urban area travel on a minimum mileage. The principal arterial system should carry the major portion of trips entering and leaving an urban area, as well as the majority of through movements desiring to bypass the central city. Almost all fully and partially controlled access facilities will be part of this functional system. In Poughkeepsie, the principal arterials are Route 9, Route 44, Route 55, and Route 9D.

Minor Arterial: These roads interconnects with and augment the urban principal arterial system and provides service to trips of moderate length at somewhat lower levels of travel mobility than principal arterials. Ideally, they should not penetrate identifiable neighborhoods. The spacing of minor arterial streets should normally be not more than 1 mile in fully developed areas. In Poughkeepsie, minor arterials include but are not limited to: Collegeview Avenue, Fairmont Avenue, Fulton Avenue, Hooker Avenue, Innis Avenue, Jackson Road, Salt Point Turnpike, Spackenkill Road, Vassar Road, Wilbur Boulevard, Route 9G, Route 115, and Route 376.

Major Collector: These roads provide both land access service and traffic circulation within residential neighborhoods, commercial and industrial areas. A collector may penetrate residential neighborhoods, distributing trips from the arterials through the area to the ultimate destination. The collector street also collects traffic from local streets in residential neighborhoods and channels it into the arterial system. In a central business district, and in other areas of like development and traffic density, the collector system may include the street grid which forms a logical entity for traffic circulation. Major collectors include but are not limited to: Bedell Road, Beechwood Avenue, Burnett Boulevard, College Avenue, Creek Road, Degarmo Road, Fairview Avenue, Hornbeck Road, Fulton Street, IBM Road, Main Street, New Hamburg Road, Sheafe Road, Overocker Road, Van Wagoner Road, and Zack’s Way.

Local Roads: All other roads in the Town are local roads. These comprise all facilities not on any of the higher systems. They serve primarily to provide direct access to abutting land and access to the higher order systems. Local roads offer the lowest level of mobility.

6.4.2. Road Jurisdiction

The New York State Department maintains a database of the length of all public roads by jurisdiction – statistics are available for road lengths within the unincorporated area. According to 2017 statistics, the Town owns and maintains 145.28 miles of road. In addition, there are 9.52 centerline miles of County Roads within the Town, and 25.81 miles of state highways (there are no federal highways in the Town). Table 33 provides the breakdown of mileage for roads and highways within the Town of Poughkeepsie. Table 33. UNINCORPORATED AREA ROAD JURISDICTION Jurisdiction Route No. Name Length (in Miles) Town Road --- Various 145.36 County Road NY115 Innis Avenue 0.87

Taft Avenue 0.33

Van Wagner Road 0.81

DeGarmo Rod 0.41

Sand Dock Road 0.21

IBM Road 0.53

Cedar Avenue 0.80

Vassar Road 3.69

Creek Road 0.50

Jackson Road 0.48 Main Street 0.71 Old Manchester Road 0.18 New Hamburg Road 0.37 New York 982H Burnett Boulevard 0.33 983T Hooker Avenue 0.68 983W Main Street 0.13 984A Salt Point Turnpike 0.27 NY113 Spackenkill Road 3.05 NY115 NY 115 1.79 NY376 NY 376 3.7 NY55 NY 55 2.22 NY9D Route 9D 0.6 NY9G Route 9G 1.78 US44 Route 44 4.24 US9 Route 9 6.92 North Road 0.18 Total 181.23 Source: Roadway Inventory 2017, NYSDOT, 2020.

6.4.3 Federal Aid Highways The Town of Poughkeepsie receives federal aid for certain state and local roads within the community. Table 34 lists roads which are eligible for federal aid.

Table 34. FEDERAL AID ROADS Jurisdiction Name Federal Aid North Road (Route 9) Eligible State South Road (Route 9) Route Raymond Avenue Manchester Road (Route 55) Dutchess Turnpike (Route 44) Haight Avenue (Route 44) Salt Point Turnpike Violet Avenue (Route 9) New Hackensack Road Spackenkill Road Route 9D Federal Aid Fulton Street Eligible Local West and East Cedar Street Road Fairview Avenue Buckingham Avenue Pendell Road Creek Road Cottage Road Bedell Road Van Wagner Road Hornbeck Road Degarmo Road Overocker Road Burnett Boulevard Main Street (Arlington) Fulton Avenue College Avenue Collegeview Avenue Fairmount Avenue Taft Avenue Marple Avenue Salt Point Turnpike Pehl Avenue Sharon Road Table 34. FEDERAL AID ROADS Jurisdiction Name Beechwood Avenue Wilbur Boulevard Boardman Road Cedar Avenue IBM Road Jackson Road Vassar Road Spring Road Old Post Road Sheafe Road Main Street (New Hamburg) New Hamburg Road Source: Roadway Inventory 2017, NYSDOT, 2020.

6.4.4 NYS DOT Traffic Data One factor that contributes to the determination of a roadway’s classification is its average daily traffic volume. The NYSDOT’s Engineering Division collects traffic volume data for 8,000 – 10,000 locations per year, including several road segments within the Town of Poughkeepsie. The AADT estimation process allows the user to be 95% confident that the estimated AADT is within +/- 10% of the actual value. The traffic counts, or estimated Annual Average Daily Traffic (AADT), are estimated at different years – the most recent data are from 2016 - AADT are shown on Map 16 NYS DOT Average Annual Daily Traffic Count.

Route 9 carries the most traffic volume in the Town – it carries approximately 60,156 trips daily in the vicinity of the Spackenkill Road ramps. Farther north, traffic volumes along Route 9 in the vicinity of Sharon Drive are 49,161 trips. The traffic volume along the segment of Route 9 in the vicinity of Sheafe Road and south of IBM is 43,752 trips. Traffic on Route 9 drops down to 39,966 trips in the vicinity of the Town’s boundary with the Town of Wappinger. At the Hyde Park border, traffic volume drops to approximately 21,603 trips.

Route 55 east of the City of Poughkeepsie border carries 38,537 trips. Route 44 carries 37,153 trips, and Route 376 carries 14,766 trips. Spackenkill Road carries approximately 13,104 trips annually. Innis Avenue carries approximately 11,336 trips and Vassar Avenue about 200 fewer trips. The remaining roads in the Town carry under 10,000 daily trips.

6.5 Passenger Rail Service While the Town of Poughkeepsie contains one train station, New Hamburg, within its boundary; the City of Poughkeepsie Train Station (named the “Poughkeepsie Train Station”) is also centrally located for residents of the Town of Poughkeepsie and as a regional train station provides a more diverse schedule. For this reason, the Town of Poughkeepsie is well positioned for residents who need access to regional transportation, particularly south into New York City.

Amtrak, or the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, maintains an Operating Agreement with CSX Transportation, in order to operate the Empire Line which provides “higher-speed” regional service from New York City to Toronto, Canada. At present, the operating railroad for the line is Amtrak with maintenance and capital responsibilities, and CSXT maintaining track rights through a long-term lease agreement between CSX and Amtrak established in 2012. These tracks along the eastern shore of the Hudson River provide both freight service, regional passenger rail service and commuter rail service. Regional passenger service stops only at the City of Poughkeepsie Train Station for regional service to Albany and north to Toronto.

Local commuter service is provided from the New Hamburg train station in the Town of Poughkeepsie and the City of Poughkeepsie Train Station via the Metro North Commuter Railroad which is run by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Metro North provides commuter rail service from Grand Central Station in New York City east of the Hudson River on three lines: Hudson, Harlem, and New Haven. The City and Town of Poughkeepsie contain the northernmost stations on the Hudson Line with the Poughkeepsie Train Station as the terminus of the commuter line.

While exact origin-destination data is not available for train use by residents in the Town of Poughkeepsie, the 2017 ACS shows an increase in the use of public transportation, and anecdotal evidence indicates that many residents of the Town and adjacent Towns rely on the Metro North Commuter line for employment or similar professional purposes. It is likely that trips are undertaken daily or more periodically, supported by remote work. The train ride is comparable to drive time, especially considering vehicle traffic delays entering New York City. Express trains average 2 hours or less from Poughkeepsie to Grand Central Station, with inner-city stops at Harlem 125th. Local transfers are available at Croton Harmon in Westchester, which then provide inner-city stops at Riverdale, Spuyten Duyvil, Marble Hill, University Heights and Morris Heights. In 2018, the average weekday boarding for the Poughkeepsie train station was 1,956 passengers and from New Hamburg weekday boarding averaged 1,055 passengers. In total, the Hudson Line brought approximately 29,203 riders into Grand Central Station every weekday, with boarding from the City and Town of Poughkeepsie averaging around 7% of that daily ridership.2 3

Total average weekend ridership along the Hudson Line is almost over half of weekday ridership at an average of 15,437 passengers on the average Saturday in 2018 and 13,275 on the average

2 It should be noted that destination for “outbound” (towards NYC) ridership is not provided as a data point, therefore transfers and exits mid-route are not quantified. 3 “Metro-North 2018 Weekday Station Boardings.” Market, Planning and Analysis Department. April 2019. Sunday. Weekend ridership from the Poughkeepsie Train Station in 2018 is slightly lower than weekday, at 1,925 passengers on Saturday and 1,881 passengers on Sunday. Weekend ridership from New Hamburg is significantly lower than weekday ridership at an average of 553 passengers on Saturday and 521 passengers on Sunday. 4 This data importantly indicates that the Metro North commuter train through Poughkeepsie is an important and utilized asset to residents commuting to New York City and has greater implications for the quality of life provided by the region as well as the job market within the region.

6.6 Bus Transportation With one exception, all of the Dutchess County public transit routes travel through the Town of Poughkeepsie5. Fourteen routes travel through the Town, mostly traveling along the major state routes: Route 9, Route 9D, Route 44 and Route 55. Those routes with the most frequent stops and destinations travel along the Route 9 corridor – the A, B, G and K Routes – and most routes in the Town and County provide service to the Poughkeepsie Train Station (Map 17).

Most destinations along the transit routes are to shopping centers and commercial hubs. A challenge is that from these locations, there are few safe pedestrian or bike interconnections to the adjoining neighborhoods, and sidewalks are not always present along Route 9 or Route 9D. Yet, with the availability of bus transit on Route 9, opportunity exists to redevelop properties along the corridor and create transit-oriented developments which would benefit from public transit which could link new developments to the train stations and other major employment destinations.

6.7 Air Transportation The Hudson Valley Regional Airport is county-owned public use airport located in the Town of Wappinger just on the east side of Wappinger Creek and accessible from the Town from Jackson Road. Built in the 1930s, it was used for military training and operations until after World War II. After the Second World War, the airport was turned over to Dutchess County to be used for general aviation. IBM built a hangar and based its corporate aircraft and helicopters at the airport. In the 1970s, Cessna built and ran a Cessna Citation maintenance facility on the airport grounds. The airport had commuter commercial service operations until the 1980s, when Stewart Airport was improved to offer commercial flight service.

Flight Level Aviation is the current fixed base operator of the airport. Services provided include but are not limited to: full-service fuel and aviation products; short/long-term hangar and tie- down space; on-site maintenance facility; Type 1 de-icing; aircraft pre-heating & de-icing service; crew lounge; catering; and, baggage handling. Total operations for the airport were 36,817 flights

4 “Metro-North 2018 Weekend Station Boardings.” Market, Planning and Analysis Department. April 2019. 5 http://www.dutchessny.gov/Departments/Public-Transit/Docs/Dutchess-County-Public-Transit-System-Map.pdf. in 2019 ending in October. Itinerant operations totaled 19,264 flights, and local operations totaled 17,553 flights.6 The airport is a major underutilized transportation asset in the County immediately adjacent to the Town and about a mile from the Route 9 corridor.

6.8 Pedestrian and Trail Systems Sidewalks or pedestrian footpaths are not present in most neighborhoods in the Town. They line residential and commercial streets in the more established neighborhoods in the Town adjoining the City, such as the Fairview and Arlington neighborhoods, e.g., Lake Street, Woodlawn Avenue, and nearby streets. A pedestrian path is available for most of the length of Wilbur Boulevard. Sidewalks are present along segments of Route 9 around Oakwood Commons, but is not always present on one or both sides of the roadway. Route 9D lacks sidewalks until entering the Village of Wappinger Falls. Newer developments along Dutchess Turnpike and Manchester Road do maintain sidewalks along these roads. Several of the Town’s hamlets including New Hamburg, Manchester, and Rochdale are not developed with sidewalks. This provides the Town with its suburban/rural character, even in neighborhoods with smaller lots that are more readily walkable to neighbors. Since many of the roads in the Town end in cul-de-sacs, are loop roads, or are generally winding and designed in a manner to discourage through traffic, residents typically can and will walk along the street edge. Providing interconnections between residential neighborhoods, or on the arterial and collector roads that connect neighborhoods may be more valuable to encourage walkability than installing new sidewalks.

The most significant pedestrian facility in Town is the Dutchess Rail Trail, which runs along the northerly portion of the Town through the Fairview and Arlington neighborhoods, and continues to Stormville in East Fishkill. The trail travels over the Walkway over the Hudson and connects to Ulster County on the west side of the river into New Paltz. It is a major regional amenity and destination for cyclists and recreationalists. Map 6, Parks and Open Space, shows existing and proposed trails throughout the Town.

Although the Hudson River dominates the Town’s westerly border, riverfront trails are limited. Trails are found within major parks, e.g, Bowdoin Park, but the Hudson River East Shore rail line effectively limits access, especially as its alignment runs tight to the shoreline. Marist College and Quiet Cove Park have areas to access the waterfront, but they represent short trail segments. Most opportunities to connect a river trail exist in the City of Poughkeepsie, where the railroad right-of-way travels farther inland, and existing parks already accommodate walking paths.

6 Local operations are flights generally within view of or up to 20 miles from the airport; itinerant flights are all other operations. Data from the Federal Aviation Administration ATADS database: https://aspm.faa.gov/opsnet/sys/opsnet-server-x.asp Opportunity exists to develop a trail along Wappinger Creek – in most locations, development does not sit tight against the creek, and there is green space through which a trail could be developed, connecting neighborhoods together. T. HYDE PARK

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Map 17 Public Transportation Routes Town of Source: ESRI Web Mapping Service; Poughkeepsie Dutchess County GIS; NYS GIS 1 inch equals 1 miles ¯