Luke Parsnow reports at New York State of Politics that U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was in the area April 13, with Gov. Kathy Hochul touting $21 million in improvements to the Castleton-on-Hudson bridge, where the New York state Thruway crosses the Hudson River, connecting Albany and Rensselaer counties. The money is going to a new eastbound bridge deck, a crash-tested railing for safety, and better drainage to avoid hydroplaning on the bridge that was built in 1959 and carries about 17,000 travelers each day. Buttigieg said, “If you look at that bridge, it represents the very latest engineering and construction ingenuity available in the 1950s. But today, it takes near monthly repairs just to keep it in service.” Read more about this story at New York State of Politics.