{"id":4513,"date":"2011-07-25T07:26:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T11:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4513"},"modified":"2011-08-08T13:40:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T17:40:17","slug":"morning-read-relief-for-adirondack-commuters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/07\/25\/morning-read-relief-for-adirondack-commuters\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Read:  Relief for Adirondack commuters?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rt. 86 highway between Saranac Lake and Lake Placid is one of the busiest stretches of road in the North Country and it&#8217;s\u00a0 in pitiful shape.<\/p>\n<p>The state&#8217;s maintenance of the route &#8212; and other crucial Adirondack roadways &#8212; has been increasingly controversial, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/17851\/as-adirondack-roads-crumble-state-officials-urge-patience\">NCPR reported last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/525751\/Route-86-might-be-repaved-this-year.html?nav=5008\"> Nate Brown at the Adirondack Daily Enterprise<\/a> is reporting that relief may be on the way.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We have planned a very robust maintenance treatment &#8230; that will mill  off the asphalt and recycle it back into place as a very thick base for a  new pavement overlay,&#8221; state Department of Transportation Regional  Director Mary Ivey wrote in a recent letter to North Elba town  Supervisor Roby Politi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If our allocations hold stable through the  coming months, the project will take place this construction season.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com\/page\/content.detail\/id\/525751\/Route-86-might-be-repaved-this-year.html?nav=5008\">In his article<\/a>, Brown points out that the route sees between eight and eleven thousand cars every day.\u00a0 Right now that adds up to a lot of rattling and jarring over potholes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rt. 86 highway between Saranac Lake and Lake Placid is one of the busiest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[22,4802],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4514,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4513\/revisions\/4514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}