Department of Transportation

Vegetation Management Activities on the Remsen-Lake Placid Travel Corridor Begin in September

The New York State Department of Transportation plans to carry out vegetation management activities within the Remsen - Lake Placid (Railroad) Travel Corridor between September 8 and September 30, 2014.  Work will be done in accordance with approved Vegetation Management Plan Amendment (2008) to the Remsen – Lake Placid Travel Corridor Unit Management Plan and Adirondack Park Agency Project and Permit No. 2008-18A. 

This activity will be limited to the application of herbicides to brush growth in the area of the railroad approximately 7 to 25 feet out beyond the centerline of the railroad bed.  The intent is to complete this work during the month of September, however, the exact timing of this activity will be dependent upon acceptable weather conditions. 

The purpose of the Department’s vegetation management plan is to control weed and brush growth throughout the corridor to keep it in an operable state for the benefit of rail travelers, future railroad service expansions, and other approved uses of this State-owned asset.  This is the seventeenth year of similar and related vegetation management activities within the Railroad Corridor.

The Remsen – Lake Placid Travel Corridor is a portion of the former New York Central Railroad, Adirondack Division, acquired by New York State in 1974 and now managed by the Department of Transportation.  The Corridor extends 118-miles from the Village of Remsen in the south (where a connection with the tracks of the Mohawk, Adirondack and Northern Railroad links the Corridor to the city of Utica) to the village of Lake Placid in the north.