As long as the State has the control and rights-of-way for the Erie Canal, it will continue to generate no revenue whatsoever.
Thanks for posting this.
Remember the Erie Canal song?
I’ve never seen the Erie Canal. Can they turn it in to a trucks only highway?
Richard Katskee, a lawyer representing the trucking companies, said his clients plan to seek an injunction to halt excess tolls and refunds dating to November 2010.
Anyone who drives a car or truck knows our roads are crumbling,” he said in an interview. “Toll money should be used to fix roads.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/04/new-york-tolls-lawsuit-idUSL1N10F22M20150804
Let me guess.. it’s still a source for union jobs, right?
The Erie Canal won the civil war.
It should be preserved as a war monument.
They should return it to private groups to maintain them as public waterways maintained by private groups.
LOL! California and New York, two of the most populous states, which are OWNED by progtards, constantly bilk their taxpeasants and screw things up in general.
Michigan owes its existence to that canal.
The first great American project of its kind. It was almost the 19th century version of the Apollo program. But it may be best to let nature reclaim it or preserve a section of it for a museum if Clinton’s ditch just can’t pay for itself.
$55 MILLION annual expenses and $0.2 MILLION annual income.
Lecture us again, Obama, about public “investment in infrastructure.” Only government would do something so incredibly stupid as this...and their excuse is “The state constitution made me do it.” The constitution doesn’t mean jack-sh1t to any pol these days, yet they hide behind its skirts when they want to.
When I was very young we visited my grandfather who lived in a place on the canal, almost a shack.
It had concrete sides on it with a bit of a slope. Us kids would sit on the slope and dangle our feet in the water, that kind of stuff.
Well I slipped and went in! Not having any deep water around my house, heck, I couldn’t swim then - I was probably six or so.
Then... ker-splash! My old man jumped in and saved me! Everyone had a good laugh and I got chewed out, old man had another beer, all was good.
Grandfather died in 66 and seems it was 5 years or so before then.
Many of those canals are very popular with boaters. There is a whole class of folks who do the “Great Loop” by starting out somewhere like Chicago, go down the canals to the Mississippi, around the intra-coastal to New York, though the canals to the Erie and then back to Chicago.
Unfortunately, our 48 ft mast will never go up any of those canals.
We have traveled the Erie Canal twice. Really enjoyed it, but we frequently remarked about the fact that it has to be a waste of money for the state of NY.
My great-grandfather was an Erie canal boatman. He was a Canadian who lived in Watervliet, New York. He married an Indian woman and sired two children, one of whom was my maternal grandmother.
My great-grandmother died giving birth to my grandmother, and he dropped both kids off at an orphanage. Quite a guy, eh? In a way it was a blessing in disguise, because my grandmother received a wonderful religious education at the hands of those nuns. She grew up and eventually met a wonderful man, and the rest, as they say, was history. :-)
My mother told me she met him (the boatman who abandoned her mother and uncle at the orphanage) a couple of times. She said he was not a nice person.
I cross the Erie Canal everyday on my way to and from work. I’ve canoed on it (rental from the Genesee Waterways Center) and also boated on it with my brother. The town of Spencerport is just a few miles north of where I live and is a neat canal town, one of many, such as Fairport and Pittsford, that sprung up along the Erie Canal.
Is it too late to impeach Clinton? (DeWitt Clinton, of course.)
My ancestors helped dig that canal.