2. Steady Progress Path: Elected and appointed officials perceive strong support from the broad community for the preferred future. Transportation agencies and other parties commit to implementation of the preferred future and treat the corridor as a regional priority (among other priorities). Transportation system projects are designed and carried out in a manner consistent with the preferred future, following a long-range schedule that fits available resources. Economic development agencies recognize corridor goals and plans and adjust actions to fit. Private property owners engage effectively with each other and with governmental officials and agencies to leverage public infrastructure investment to encourage private redevelopment investment. Municipalities explore and steadily adopt regulatory modifications to encourage private investment of a type that moves the corridor toward the preferred future. Related downtown development in Schenectady and Albany steadily grows an economic bases for the corridor market. Neighborhood and business improvement districts modestly "spruce up" sections of the corridor. Bus Rapid Transit deployment occurs incrementally with a first generation in the next five years leading to a greater deployment of features over ten or more years. Implementation of much, but not all, of the identified highway / streetscape system features is reached after twenty years. Significant land use change is evident after twenty years, but full implementation of the preferred land use future is prevented partly by modest levels of regional economic growth and partly by the many long-lived redevelopment activities that occur before communities adopt new regulatory mechanisms. Utility relocation / undergrounding proves to be challenging and its implementation lags that of other features. Accompanying regional economic temperature: warm. Corridor economic temperature: warm.
