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In an announcement on Thursday, March 21, Briarcliff Manor village officials urged New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and the State Assembly to allocate $20 million in the new state budget for the preliminary design of improvements for Route 9A, which they say is "outdated and dilapidated."
The request follows the completion of a yearlong study into Route 9A conducted by the New York State Department of Transportation.
In their plea for the funds, Briarcliff Manor officials said the New York Senate included $20 million for the preliminary designs in its version of the 2024-2025 state budget, but Hochul and the New York Assembly have not.
"We cannot tolerate more delays when it comes to public safety, which is the number one goal of the state’s recently published engineering scoping study on this vital transportation corridor," said Briarcliff Manor Mayor Steven Vescio.
The route, which connects the Saw Mill River Parkway, Taconic State Parkway, and Route 100 in Hawthorne to Route 9 in Ossining, has decayed road conditions, officials said. Although it has kept the low-clearance stone arch overpasses and limited sight lines of a traditional parkway, it does not have any commercial traffic restrictions typically enforced on parkways.
The design goals for a new Route 9A will support "safe, efficient, reliable, and environmentally sound movement of people and goods," village officials said.
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