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GLOVERSVILLE The Common Council on Tuesday night awarded a $744,000 low bid to an Albany County company for the city’s long-awaited Pedestrian Safety Main Street Improvements Project.
The council awarded the bid to James H. Malloy Inc. of Loudonville.
“They’re likely to start in May,” city Department of Public Works Director Christopher Perry told the council at City Hall.
Perry said the project should be completed by September.
The resolution approved by the council calls for awarding of a Pedestrian Safety Main Street Improvements Project bid. Project limits are the intersection of South Main Street and Cayadutta Street, north to the intersection of North Main Street and Prospect Avenue.
A version of this article first appeared in the Virginia Mercury.
On October 22, 2020, friends and family were at the intersection of Jahnke and German School roads on Richmond’s Southside to mourn the loss of 16-year-old Aajah Rosemond, who was killed by a driver while walking to the store.
According to police, a collision with a GMC Yukon sent a roughly 6,000 pound Nissan Titan spiraling up and onto the sidewalk, fatally striking the teenager. The evening news tells such tales with disturbing regularity, a product of Virginia’s rapidly rising pedestrian death rate. However, what’s behind the spike and how to fix it are questions without simple answers.