New Cell Towers for Adirondacks I-87 ‘Dead Zone’
Verizon Wireless says cellphone towers have filled most of the former 80-mile coverage gap along the Adirondack Northway between Albany and Montreal, and it plans to fill the remaining 15-mile space with three more next year.
The wireless carrier says it has built and activated 11 new sites by Interstate-87 since 2008 along a stretch of superhighway in the Adirondack Mountains running from about the north end of Lake George to Keeseville.
The Adirondack Park Agency, which regulates development in the 6-million-acre park, says it has approved 81 tower projects over the last four years.
In January 2007, Reb Efraim Langner, z”l, was niftar on the way back from a wedding in Monreal after his car slid off the road along the remote stretch of highway and he died trying to escape the stuck vehicle, unable to call for help.
This article appeared in print on page 4 of edition of Hamodia.
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