Before we make good on cockamamie ideas like turning an interstate spur which is vital for tens of thousands of cars per day into a boulevard with traffic lights on it slowing traffic down to a crawl, let's build a metro system so people can get around quickly and efficiently, and don't have to be dependent on cars. Between RPI, U Albany School of Engineering, The College of Nanoscale Science, Global Foundries, and GE here in Tech Valley, a metro system could be a living laboratory for transit technology to be developed here. That will give this region worldwide importance for major cities like London, Paris, Munich, Beijing, Manila, Sydney, etc. That could become our crown jewel. If we had something like that, then last year's proposal for Albany to become the second headquarters for something colossally huge like Amazon could actually work here and be feasible. Albany Mayor Kathy Sheehan Daniel McCoy City of Schenectady Mayor Gary McCarthy Assemblymember Patricia A. Fahy Assemblymember John McDonald Phil Steck Senator Neil D. Breslin