from: Thomas Rue
to: Senator Charles E. Schumer
date: Jun 5, 2024, 11:09 PM
subject: "Build Back Better" infrastructure support for Skinners Falls/Milanville Bridge
Dear Senator Schumer,
I ask you to exercise the influence of your office to ensure immediate funding for the repair of the Skinners Falls/Milanville Bridge which connects the townships of Cochecton, Sullivan County, NY and Damascus, Wayne County Pennsylvania. This bridge, which is vital to the local economy, has been closed by order of PennDOT for over five years, with no clear plan identified for its future.
Please refer to my web page at https://tomrue.net/sfbridge/ for historical information about this important historic interstate span which has been neglected far too long.
I hope you will bring this matter to public light before the fall in order to demonstrate the local impact here in the Upper Delaware River Valley of the "Build Back Better" moniker of the bipartisan infrastructure bill. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Thomas Rue
Narrowsburg NY 12764
Attachment: tomrue.net/history/bridges/2024-05-13-USDOT-Secy-Pete-Buttigieg-re-Skinners-Falls-Bridge.pdf