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Buffalo: Dead or Alive?
Submitted by JNorquist on Wed, 07/22/2009 - 3:18pm.Buffalo is a port on Lake Erie with no visible connection to the lake. The entire shoreline is separated from the neighborhood fabric of Buffalo by grade separated highways.
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Protesting Route 5 in Buffalo
Submitted by norabeck on Mon, 09/15/2008 - 2:39pm.Local television station covers the Route 5/Skyway construction and protests by local residents who are demanding more of the NYSDOT.... read more »
Buffalo's O'Neill: Let's keep waterfront route at grade level
Submitted by norabeck on Thu, 09/04/2008 - 2:10pm.Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper's Julie O'Neill wrote a passionate opinion piece in the Buffalo News, "Let's keep waterfront route at grade level
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Buffalo Video Makes the Case for Teardown
Submitted by norabeck on Fri, 08/22/2008 - 9:37pm.Check out this video from the Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper reviewing the Southtowns Connector project in Buffalo NY.
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The Continuing Story of the Buffalo Skyway
Submitted by Carl.Beien on Tue, 07/15/2008 - 4:48pm.Buffalo Business First reports that the debate over what to do with the antiquated Skyway freeway in downtown Buffalo is beginning to stall.
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Former DOT Engineer Supports Buffalo Boulevard
Submitted by norabeck on Mon, 02/25/2008 - 10:28pm.Joe Tocke, former transportation engineer with the NYSDOT, wrote a great opinion piece in the Buffalo News last Friday,
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Buffalo's Top Scribe: "Wall-Like Road Makes No Sense"
Submitted by norabeck on Wed, 01/30/2008 - 7:37pm.Donn Esmonde weighs in on the waterfront debate again this week with his commentary in the Buffalo News, "Route 5 barricade heads to c
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As deadlines loom, the fight for Buffalo's waterfront escalates
Submitted by tbellino on Thu, 12/13/2007 - 7:42pm.While the New York State Transportation Department prepares to award construction contracts for an improvement of Buffalo's Route 5 elevated expressway,
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Buffalo City Council Unanimous in Opposing the Expansion of Waterfront Highway, Local Groups Form Buffalo Waterfront Coalition
Submitted by crandell on Thu, 10/18/2007 - 10:18pm.CNU's effort to enable urbanism on Buffalo's downtown waterfront continues to build momentum. This week, the Buffalo City Council asked the State to delay the awarding of construction contracts that would maintain the embanked Route 5 freeway and expand a major frontage road on the Outer Harbor. Cou... read more »
Helping Buffalo Avoid Another Freeway Mistake by the Lake
Submitted by cwoodrow on Mon, 09/10/2007 - 8:45pm.John Norquist and transportation planner Norm Marshall were in Buffalo, New York late last week, alerting Buffalonians to the ramifications of allowing the NYSDOT to forge ahead with an awful plan to maintain an embanked freeway along the city's Outer Harbor and expand an adjacent frontage road. Nor... read more »