[neverdem]

Is there a reason that the cellphone towers can't be mounted on the fire watchtowers scattered through the Adirondacks?

[conservative in nyc]

Is there a reason that the cellphone towers can't be mounted on the fire watchtowers scattered through the Adirondacks?

Are they anywhere near I-87?

As for the budget, the steamroller got steamrolled. Silver steamrolled him on charter schools, limiting the number of new schools and including an odious unionization provision if the schools get too big. Bruno and the Health Care Union steamrolled him on hospital funding. And he got steamrolled on the whole process itself, keeping negotiations behind closed doors as in the old days.

New Yorkers didn't win with this budget.

[sageb1]

“State Senator Elizabeth Little, a Republican who represents the area, said in a statement: “The goal is to provide service that is fully funded by a cellphone carrier, not requiring support from the state. But given the existing state policy that restricts the height of cellphone towers in the Adirondacks, a state subsidy may be appropriate.””

I can see Betty Little’s office out of my window as I type this. She’s been a good Senator. The environmentalists are fighting cell phone towers anywhere in the Adirondack Park. The talk is now centered around towers that look like trees, but the tree huggers want them so short that they may not work. We used to have phone boxes, but those were taken down probably because use was infrequent.

I don’t know a precise answer to your question about installing them on fire watchtowers.

Something has to be done. The Northway is the only major route other than Rt. 9. It is beautiful, but long and lonely with exits few and far between...and obviously not a good place to be in an emergency.

Sidenote: The Northway runs through my old backyard. We had to move our house down the hill when it was built. I remember riding my bike on it before it opened.