Delmar, New York

Delmar is a hamlet in the Town of Bethlehem, in Albany County, New York, United States. It is a suburb of the neighboring city of Albany. The community is bisected by NY Route 443 (Delaware Avenue), a major thoroughfare, main street, and route to Albany.

A census-designated place (CDP) has been established since 1980 by the U.S. Census Bureau for tabulating the population of what the census has defined as the boundaries of the urbanized area in and around Delmar. The population was 8,292 at the 2000 census, but it was not included as a CDP in the 2010 census.

In 2005, CNN/Money Magazine named the Delmar ZIP Code (an area larger than the Delmar hamlet or CDP) as one of the “Best Places to Live” in America, rating it the 22nd best place to live among what it called “Great American Towns.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delmar,_New_York

Rochester used to have a lot more clover leafs in 1960. 🍀

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Rochester used to have a lot more clover leafs in 1960. 🍀

Cloverleafs have fallen out of popularity due to the dangerous weaving conditions they create.

The Rochester Arterials were in many cases built early on in the Interstate era and have a lot of problems with weaving conditions and left handed exits and merges. Newer designs are better and they’ve been fixing them in recent decades.

Another interesting thing is the sharp curve at South Goodman Street on Interstate 490 – this is due to a sharp bend in the original Erie Canal which 490 follow, although they round a bit of the curve when they built the Interstate.

At the Can of Worms, the route of I 590 follows the original Erie Canal south bend – the sharp bend to the south from I 490 to I 590 was a feature of the Canal.

Why We Need Widespread Rapid COVID Testing

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Why We Need Widespread Rapid COVID Testing

8/27/20 by NPR

Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/111671776
Episode: https://play.podtrac.com/npr-381444908/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-podcasts/podcast/npr/fa/2020/08/20200827_fa_fapodthurs-e5a1d6f4-062d-4af6-b825-b443befc4b71.mp3

‘Atlantic’ journalist Alexis Madrigal says millions of at-home saliva tests for COVID could be the key to life returning to normal — even if the tests are less accurate than the traditional PCR tests. We talk about the advantages and disadvantages of different kinds of testing, and what it would take for the government to fund and manufacture millions of daily tests. “I think what’s happened in the U.S. has been so catastrophic on so many levels — economically, psychologically, educationally — that we have to be at least willing to entertain the idea of a fairly radical plan that could work,” Madrigal says.