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Earlier this month, a 25-year-old from Colonie died when a truck hit his motorcycle at a notoriously deadly intersection in Niskayuna. On Monday, a New York state assemblyman whose son died last year after being hit on the same Route 7 corridor, joined community members to demand that New York State take action.

This week the New York State Department of Transportation released the findings of its study to reimagine the Interstate 787 Corridor.

(Airs 04/11/25 @ 10 p.m.) The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: the state budget is now on track to be two weeks late, and we’ll find out why. We’ll talk with the executive director of Reinvent Albany about transparency or the lack there of, in budget negotiations, and a trio of Hudson Valley lawmakers ask the state DOT to detail its plan to assess the risk for ship strikes at two Hudson River bridges considered vulnerable.

The future of the stretch of Interstate 787 in Albany remains under discussion.

Residents and officials in Castleton-on-Hudson are continuing their battle to create a safe crossing over Amtrak rail lines and develop a new park along the Hudson River.

Residents and officials in Castleton-on-Hudson are preparing for a hearing in the village’s fight to create a safe crossing over Amtrak rail lines and develop a new park along the Hudson River.

Interstate 787 carries tens of thousands of motorists in and out of Albany every day. Now, the Albany Riverfront Collaborative has been chosen to participate in a program that will support efforts to repair historical damage and inequities through redesigning the superhighway and the South Mall Arterial.

An open house on the future of Interstate 787 is scheduled for this evening in downtown Albany.

A portion of a well-traveled road in the Adirondacks will be closed for a week in September.

A meeting has been called for tonight in Schoharie to discuss the safety of Route 30, where a limousine crash killed 20 people in October 2018. On October…