{"id":3098,"date":"2021-10-12T03:48:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T03:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/?p=3098"},"modified":"2021-10-12T03:56:11","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T03:56:11","slug":"in-the-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/?p=3098","title":{"rendered":"In the News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#e7e4e2;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"width:104% !important;max-width:104% !important;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 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fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 26px 0px 54px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\"><p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/news.wbfo.org\/post\/expressway-seen-symbol-racial-inequity-health-problems<\/p>\n<div class=\"by-date\"><span class=\"submitted\"><span class=\"submitted-label\">By<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"name\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.wbfo.org\/people\/angelica-morrison\" rel=\"author\">ANGELICA A. MORRISON<\/a><\/span><\/span>\u00a0<i class=\"bullet\">\u2022<\/i>\u00a0<span class=\"pub-date\">JAN 15, 2018<\/span><\/div>\n<p><em>First in a series on environmental justice issues.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The scent of exhaust fumes fill the air on a mid-January afternoon. Cars, trucks and buses zip back and forth from downtown Buffalo on the Kensington Expressway, also known as the Martin Luther King Jr. Expressway.<\/p>\n<p>This section of Route 33 was built in the early \u201960s, wiping out a tree-lined parkway designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.\u00a0 Today, the sunken, six-lane expressway cuts straight through an African-American community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was like they were building the Erie Canal that\u2019s what it reminded you of this big elongated ditch,\u201d said 67-year-old Al Thompson, who lives nearby.<\/p>\n<p>He remembers playing football with friends on the Humboldt Parkway\u2019s wide median strip. He also remembers when the parkway was destroyed.<\/p>\n<\/div><div style=\"text-align:center;\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"660\" title=\"air_race_morrison_1_1\" src=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/air_race_morrison_1_1.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/air_race_morrison_1_1-1024x660.jpg\" class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-2969\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271200%27%20height%3D%27773%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%201200%20773%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%271200%27%20height%3D%27773%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/air_race_morrison_1_1-200x129.jpg 200w, http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/air_race_morrison_1_1-400x258.jpg 400w, http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/air_race_morrison_1_1-600x387.jpg 600w, http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/air_race_morrison_1_1-800x515.jpg 800w, http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/air_race_morrison_1_1.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-3\"><div class=\"wysiwyg-asset-image-wrapper left\">\n<div class=\"wysiwyg-asset-image\">\n<div class=\"image-meta\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">by ANGELICA A. MORRISON \/ Signage outside the Kensington Expressway Buffalo NY.<\/div>\n<div class=\"credit\">CREDIT BY ANGELICA A. MORRISON<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Thompson describes the expressway as a road built so that whites working downtown could quickly get to and from their suburban homes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou would look down on to the expressway and you can see into the cars, from the bridges going across,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s all white folks. During the rush hours leaving town.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thompson and others see the expressway as a symbol of redlining. That federal policy guided home loans for years after World War II. Experts say it led to racially segregated city neighborhoods and mostly white suburbs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, it wasn\u2019t until later when I got to be a bit more academically astute, that I understood how sinister the aspect of redlining was. And in my mind, that 33 is the Redline Express,\u201d Thompson said.<\/p>\n<p>Henry Taylor Jr., founding director for The University at Buffalo\u2019s Center for Urban Studies, said the expressway changed city neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThey planned the design and construction of the 33, really before the African American population got there. So they had not yet started construction until the 1960s,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cSo whites knew that the highway was coming through and they started to sell their houses to blacks.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Highways were put in areas where there were fewer single-family houses, and more industry, he said. Lower income workers, blacks and Latinos typically lived in these areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo they\u2019re living on the lands that are most likely to be polluted. And they\u2019re living on lands that are historically situated near your transportation linkages,\u201d Taylor said.<\/p>\n<p>Julian Marshall is a University of Washington professor and co-author of a report on one of those pollutants: nitrogen dioxide. It\u2019s emitted from vehicles, and can contribute to asthma.<\/p>\n<\/div><div ><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-2 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"637\" title=\"air_race_morrison_3_1\" src=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/air_race_morrison_3_1.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/air_race_morrison_3_1-1024x637.jpg\" class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-2971\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%271200%27%20height%3D%27747%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%201200%20747%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%271200%27%20height%3D%27747%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/air_race_morrison_3_1-200x125.jpg 200w, http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/air_race_morrison_3_1-400x249.jpg 400w, http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/air_race_morrison_3_1-600x374.jpg 600w, http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/air_race_morrison_3_1-800x498.jpg 800w, http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/air_race_morrison_3_1.jpg 1200w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-4\"><div class=\"wysiwyg-asset-image-wrapper left\">\n<div class=\"wysiwyg-asset-image\">\n<div class=\"image-meta\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<div class=\"wysiwyg-asset-image-wrapper inset\">\n<div class=\"wysiwyg-asset-image\">\n<div class=\"image-meta\">\n<div class=\"caption\">by ANGELICA A. MORRISON \/ Morning traffic rush on an expressway lined with residential properties, Buffalo NY.<\/div>\n<div class=\"credit\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The report showed that, across the nation, minorities face a much higher exposure than whites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s this enormous historic lag, to where people are and where pollution is,\u201d Marshall said. \u201cThe forces from 50 years ago are still alive today. If we built a highway, that highway will very likely still exist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Experts have some ideas for reducing these disparities.<\/p>\n<p>Marshall says government officials should continue to push to reduce air pollution. Taylor says solutions can start with changing the road system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo right now part of the problem with the 33 and the thousands upon thousands of cars, no green infrastructure,\u201d Taylor said.<\/p>\n<p>Thompson has some ideas, too.<\/p>\n<p>He has a form of leukemia that some studies suggest is linked to vehicle emissions. The disease is in remission, and he spends much of his free time working with a group called Restore Our Community Coalition.<\/p>\n<p>It aims to raise money to cover part of Route 33 and restore the lush, green Humboldt Parkway. Thompson thinks that could address old wounds from redlining.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will go a long, long way to the healing of some of the ills that plagued us,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cAnd it will be a physical example for all to see that \u2018yes we were wrong we made a mistake,\u2019 but we made it right\u2026 now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-4{width:100% !important;margin-top : 10px;margin-bottom : 10px;}.fusion-builder-column-4 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 26px !important;margin-right : 0%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 54px !important;margin-left : 0%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-4{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-4 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 0%;margin-left : 0%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body 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class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"width:104% !important;max-width:104% !important;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-5 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;background-color:#ffffff;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-5\"><h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center; font-size: 36px;\" data-fusion-font=\"true\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Nation\u2019s top transportation official sees benefit of revival of Humboldt Parkway<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator\" style=\"align-self: 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no-repeat;border-width: 0px 0 0 0;border-color:#e7e4e2;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"width:100% !important;max-width:100% !important;margin-left: calc(-0% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-0% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-7 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 26px 0px 54px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-6\"><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/city-region\/east-side\/nations-top-transportation-official-sees-benefit-of-revival-of-humboldt-parkway-20160521<\/p>\n<header>\n<div id=\"articleInfo\">\n<p><span class=\"bylineName\">By <a class=\"bylineName\" title=\"Email Mark Sommer\" href=\"mailto:msommer@buffnews.com\">Mark Sommer<\/a> <span class=\"bylinePosition\">| News Staff Reporter<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\">\n<p class=\"date left\">on May 21, 2016 \u2013 8:47 PM, updated May 21, 2016 at 11:08 PM<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"articleTools clearfix skinLightGray\">This is particularly important now because we will be replacing or rebuilding so much of our infrastructure.\u201d \u2013 Anthony Foxx, U.S. Secretary of Transportation<\/div>\n<div class=\"articleBody clearfix\">\n<div id=\"article-connection-rail\">\n<div class=\"relatedArticleContent\">\n<div class=\"relatedArticleContent\">\n<p><a class=\"lightbox\" title=\" \" href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/storyimage\/BN\/20160521\/CITYANDREGION\/160529781\/EP\/1\/1\/EP-160529781.jpg&amp;maxW=960\"><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/storyimage\/BN\/20160521\/CITYANDREGION\/160529781\/EP\/1\/1\/EP-160529781.jpg&amp;exactW=174&amp;exactH=126&amp;AlignV=top&amp;imageversion=HomePageSectionFront\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The nation\u2019s top transportation official said Buffalo should consider resurrecting at least a portion of the grand, tree-lined boulevard that once stretched 3 miles from Delaware Park to Martin Luther King Jr. Park \u2013 before it was replaced by an expressway that split the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"articleP\">\n<p>U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx said it\u2019s incumbent on Buffalo and other cities to explore how to revive neighborhoods decimated by the urban renewal projects of the 1950s and \u201960s.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced $6 million to complete a Department of Transportation study on the feasibility of covering a portion of the Kensington Expressway, also known as Route 33, and return it to a tree-lined parkway and promenade.<\/p>\n<p>Doing so won\u2019t come cheap: The 2012 DOT study showed a $600 million price tag in 2018 dollars for what was named Alternate D. It would deck the highway and create green space over a three-quarter-mile portion between East Ferry and Best streets.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/history.buffalonews.com\/2016\/05\/08\/buffalo-know-slow-death-humboldt-parkway-building-33-198\/\">The Buffalo You Should Know: The slow death of Humboldt Parkway in building the 33 and 198<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2013<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI grew up in a neighborhood that was carved up,\u201d Foxx told The Buffalo News. \u201cThe lingering effect of those kinds of decisions across the country was that there was poor connectivity in almost every way \u2013 from a neighborhood economic standpoint and from a community vitality standpoint.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to help communities trying to reinvent themselves and reconnect themselves to find ways to do so,\u201d Foxx said.<\/p>\n<p>Foxx, who has been transportation secretary since April 2013, lived in a low-income, mostly African-American neighborhood in Charlotte, N.C., that was divided by a freeway. Transportation planners and community engineers routinely routed highways through minority and low-income neighborhoods as the preferred way to take cars off city streets, move people more quickly to airports and speed up the commute to and from the suburbs. As in Buffalo, it typically occurred over objections of the affected communities.<\/p>\n<p>Foxx, who was Charlotte\u2019s mayor before his current job and has eight months left in office under President Obama, said the issue of addressing the harm done by urban renewal also is timely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is particularly important now because we will be replacing or rebuilding so much of our infrastructure,\u201d Foxx said. \u201cIf we do it correctly, we can begin correcting some of the mistakes that were made, including to places historically underserved and neglected.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"articleP\">\n<p>Riding horses<\/p>\n<p>Tanya Redmond, a retired phone company worker, remembers riding horses as a girl on Humboldt Parkway, surrounded by rows of Dutch elm and maple trees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were beautiful trees that were straight on one side, and straight on the other,\u201d Redmond said. \u201cIt was in the middle where the activities would take place. It was just a peaceful place. We always called it \u2018the Park.\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 300 trees were cut down to make way for the highway on the Frederick Law Olmsted-designed parkway. Hundreds of families were forcibly relocated by the time the green respite from urban living disappeared by the mid-\u201960s and the below-grade expressway, with five bridges, divided the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel angry that such a beautiful area was taken away from us. It was gorgeous,\u201d Redmond said. \u201cIt split this part of our community up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Redmond\u2019s father, Clarke Eaton Jr., was one of the first to advocate restoring the parkway as a way to make the community whole again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was my father\u2019s vision for 40 years, and he\u2019s 81 now,\u201d she said. \u201cI pray he lives long enough to see a groundbreaking.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Don Hill, who grew up on Humboldt Parkway, said the parkway\u2019s destruction coincided with the flight of Jews, Italians, Germans and others to the suburbs.<\/p>\n<p>Hill has many fond memories of the parkway, like walking to school in the wintertime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was like walking through an Ansel Adams photo,\u201d Hill said. \u201cThat\u2019s why many of us who grew up in the area were just devastated. It was a spectacular parkway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey said it was \u2018for the sake of progress,\u2019 but it was just to get people from downtown out to the suburbs, and it didn\u2019t matter to them what it did to the people living here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Hill, 70, remains hopeful. \u201cI\u2019m happy for the movement to make this a Frederick Law Olmsted city, and to restore his vision to what it once was.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"articleP\">\n<p>Completing the study<\/p>\n<p>The DOT study announced by Cuomo is the follow-up to the department\u2019s preliminary engineering feasibility report issued in August 2012. It is expected to provide a more complete environmental assessment and detailed cost analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Both studies came about as the result of community advocacy, including efforts by the Restore Our Community Coalition and Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples-Stokes.<\/p>\n<p>Karen Stanley Fleming, ROCC\u2019s executive director, said the study will point the way to the best course of action. That could mean supporting the decking and green space between East Ferry and Best streets, Fleming said, or another approach that reconnects the entire span between Delaware and Martin Luther King Jr. parks.<\/p>\n<p>Fleming said more than the sheer economic cost needs to be weighed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to look at the investment and the repairing of a community that was destroyed,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is going to bring back a neighborhood and improve property values.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A 2014 economic study prepared by the University at Buffalo Regional Institute\u2019s Urban Design project found there would be a significant economic impact from an increase in property values along the parkway, higher tax revenues and hundreds of construction jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe think the time is now to move on this, and we are very excited that this is exactly the type of project Secretary Foxx is speaking of,\u201d Fleming said.<\/p>\n<p>Peoples-Stokes, who pushed for both DOT studies, said the waterfront\u2019s resurgence gives her confidence the parkway can also come back to life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUrban areas don\u2019t thrive when you take everything out of them,\u201d Peoples-Stokes said. \u201cThey thrive when you put everything in them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo, said it took years and many incremental steps to turn the waterfront around, and suggested it may be necessary to start with a smaller area such as Northampton Street to Best to get things going along Humboldt Parkway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProjects like this need a start, not a finish, and I think the Best Street corridor is going to be very, very important,\u201d Higgins said, noting its proximity to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, the Buffalo Museum of Science, City Honors School and the Johnnie B. Wiley sports complex. \u201cIf we could get that done in a decade, I think it would demonstrate tangible progress, and be a major contribution to righting that historical wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Higgins said there\u2019s a reasonable chance that a massive investment will be made in the nation\u2019s aging roads, bridges and rail in the coming years, with the prospect of federal funding for large infrastructure projects like this one.<\/p>\n<p>When Cuomo announced the $6 million study on April 6 at the Buffalo Museum of Science, it was met with loud cheers from the audience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost places have reversed their mistakes, and that\u2019s what we are going to be doing here,\u201d Cuomo told them.<\/p>\n<p>Later, the governor told The Buffalo News it was possible for the state to provide significant funding for the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese transportation projects \u2013 you bond them, they\u2019re done over time, and they\u2019re doable,\u201d Cuomo said.<\/p>\n<p>Foxx said there are federal dollars that could be of assistance, pots of money that Higgins said he\u2019s looking at.<\/p>\n<p>Fleming said having the federal transportation secretary recognize the importance of what happened in places like Buffalo means a lot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand Secretary Foxx\u2019s personal experience, and we very much appreciate his vision for reconnecting communities,\u201d Fleming said.<\/p>\n<p>email: <a href=\"mailto:msommer@buffnews.com\">msommer@buffnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-7{width:100% !important;margin-top : 10px;margin-bottom : 10px;}.fusion-builder-column-7 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 26px !important;margin-right : 0%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 54px !important;margin-left : 0%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-7{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-7 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 0%;margin-left : 0%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-7{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-7 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 0%;margin-left : 0%;}}<\/style><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-flex-container.fusion-builder-row-2-6{ padding-top : 0px;margin-top : 0px;padding-right : 3%;padding-bottom : 0px;margin-bottom : 0px;padding-left : 0%;}<\/style><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-meta-info\"><div class=\"fusion-alignleft\"><span class=\"vcard\" style=\"display: none;\"><span class=\"fn\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/?author=1\" title=\"Posts by nbd9e65bg\" rel=\"author\">nbd9e65bg<\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"updated\" style=\"display:none;\">2021-10-12T02:16:49+00:00<\/span><span>October 12th, 2021<\/span><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span>Categories: <a href=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/?cat=31\" rel=\"category\">In the News<\/a><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span><span class=\"fusion-comments\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/?p=2977#respond\">0 Comments<\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-alignright\"><a class=\"fusion-read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/?p=2977\" aria-label=\"More on Nation\u2019s top transportation official sees benefit of revival of Humboldt Parkway\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/article>\n<article id=\"blog-1-post-2980\" class=\"fusion-post-large post-2980 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-in-the-news\">\n\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/style>\n\n\n<div class=\"fusion-post-content post-content\"><div class=\"fusion-post-content-container\"><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2-7 fusion-flex-container hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#e7e4e2;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"width:104% !important;max-width:104% !important;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-8 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;background-color:#ffffff;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-7\"><h1 class=\"entry-title fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"text-align: center; 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Andrew M. Cuomo announces local funding at Museum of Science. Robert Kirkham\/Buffalo News<\/p>\n<p>The state\u2019s new budget for the 2016-17 fiscal year revives an old idea that eventually could reunite a historic East Side neighborhood torn apart by the 1950s construction of the Kensington Expressway.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo elicited a chorus of oohs and aahs during his appearance at the Buffalo Museum of Science on Wednesday as he unveiled a $6 million effort to study covering a three-quarter-mile stretch of the Kensington between Best and Ferry streets, transforming it into a tree-lined parkway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was originally the Humboldt Parkway, it was beautiful, and it was part of the Olmsted design,\u201d Cuomo said. \u201cIn the mid-\u201950s, we had a better idea and it turned out not to be a better idea, which was to move vehicles in and out of Buffalo faster by building a highway. This was not just in Buffalo; this was all over the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost places have reversed their mistakes, and that\u2019s what we are going to be doing here,\u201d the governor said to cheers from the audience.<\/p>\n<p>The state Department of Transportation has estimated that the cost could surpass $500 million to fully restore that stretch of the East Side neighborhood. A community group, Restore Our Community Coalition, has been advocating for a study since 2012.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, state transportation planners were considering the idea back in 2009. The area\u2019s transportation planning organization took initial steps then toward a $2 million study of the idea, which was proposed years before that by former State Sen. Antoine M. Thompson when he was the Masten District member of the Common Council.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo told The Buffalo News editorial board later Wednesday that it is possible for the state to come through with significant funding for the project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese transportation projects \u2013 you bond them, they\u2019re done over time, and they\u2019re doable,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cuomo also reiterated plans to spend $30 million on turning the Scajaquada Expressway into an urban boulevard, with $54 million more to support the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority. An additional $4 million will be spent for the next phase of returning cars to Main Street in downtown Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>An additional $4.5 million also is being invested in Niagara Falls State Park and two other state parks upstate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith these investments, Buffalo will really start to be restoring the very fabric and restoring community,\u201d Cuomo said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"articleBody clearfix\">\n<div class=\"articleP\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-10{width:100% !important;margin-top : 10px;margin-bottom : 10px;}.fusion-builder-column-10 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 26px !important;margin-right : 0%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 54px !important;margin-left : 0%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-10{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-10 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 0%;margin-left : 0%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-10{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-10 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 0%;margin-left : 0%;}}<\/style><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-flex-container.fusion-builder-row-2-9{ padding-top : 0px;margin-top : 0px;padding-right : 3%;padding-bottom : 0px;margin-bottom : 0px;padding-left : 0%;}<\/style><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-meta-info\"><div class=\"fusion-alignleft\"><span class=\"vcard\" style=\"display: none;\"><span class=\"fn\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/?author=1\" title=\"Posts by nbd9e65bg\" rel=\"author\">nbd9e65bg<\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"updated\" style=\"display:none;\">2021-10-12T02:17:30+00:00<\/span><span>October 12th, 2021<\/span><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span>Categories: <a href=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/?cat=31\" rel=\"category\">In the News<\/a><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span><span class=\"fusion-comments\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/?p=2980#respond\">0 Comments<\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-alignright\"><a class=\"fusion-read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/?p=2980\" aria-label=\"More on Cheers greet Cuomo on goal of reviving Humboldt Parkway area\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/article>\n<article id=\"blog-1-post-2983\" class=\"fusion-post-large post-2983 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-in-the-news\">\n\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/style>\n\n\n<div class=\"fusion-post-content post-content\"><div class=\"fusion-post-content-container\"><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2-10 fusion-flex-container hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#e7e4e2;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"width:104% !important;max-width:104% !important;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-11 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;background-color:#ffffff;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-9\"><h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center; 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Most places have reversed the mistakes, and that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to be doing here,\u201d\u00a0<b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twcnews.com\/nys\/buffalo\/news\/2016\/04\/6\/cuomo-speaking-at-buffalo-museum-of-science.html\">Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday during a media event in Buffalo.<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The coming year\u2019s budget includes $6 million for environmental and design assessments to study restoring one-third of the original Humboldt Parkway.\u00a0ROCC supports a design that would cover a mile of the expressway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe covering will completely leave the freeway alone,\u201d said Bethel. \u201cPeople will still be able to commute from downtown to the airport as they wish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those in favor of the project say reconnecting the neighborhood can help spur economic growth on the city\u2019s east side, an area some say was left behind while the rest of Buffalo experienced a so-called renaissance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re envisioning a completely rejuvenated east side, bringing a part of the city that has been disenfranchised for about 50 years, brining it into the fuller narrative of the city\u2019s redevelopment,\u201d said Bethel.<\/p>\n<p>Bethel says that could include increased property values and may help attract businesses to the area.<\/p>\n<p>Next up, he says the environmental study will take a look at air and soil quality. He says the design and build phase could take up to five years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"articleBody clearfix\">\n<div class=\"articleP\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-13{width:100% !important;margin-top : 10px;margin-bottom : 10px;}.fusion-builder-column-13 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 26px !important;margin-right : 0%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 54px !important;margin-left : 0%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-13{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-13 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 0%;margin-left : 0%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-13{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-13 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 0%;margin-left : 0%;}}<\/style><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-flex-container.fusion-builder-row-2-12{ padding-top : 0px;margin-top : 0px;padding-right : 3%;padding-bottom : 0px;margin-bottom : 0px;padding-left : 0%;}<\/style><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-meta-info\"><div class=\"fusion-alignleft\"><span class=\"vcard\" style=\"display: none;\"><span class=\"fn\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/?author=1\" title=\"Posts by nbd9e65bg\" rel=\"author\">nbd9e65bg<\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"updated\" style=\"display:none;\">2021-10-12T02:18:36+00:00<\/span><span>October 12th, 2021<\/span><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span>Categories: <a href=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/?cat=31\" rel=\"category\">In the News<\/a><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span><span class=\"fusion-comments\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/?p=2983#respond\">0 Comments<\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-alignright\"><a class=\"fusion-read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/?p=2983\" aria-label=\"More on Funding Is Step Forward for Kensington Expressway Revamp Effort\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/article>\n<article id=\"blog-1-post-2986\" class=\"fusion-post-large post-2986 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-in-the-news\">\n\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/style>\n\n\n<div class=\"fusion-post-content post-content\"><div class=\"fusion-post-content-container\"><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2-13 fusion-flex-container hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#e7e4e2;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"width:104% !important;max-width:104% !important;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-14 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;background-color:#ffffff;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-11\"><h1 class=\"entry-title fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"text-align: center; 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Coalition members say $4 million would fund a study of design alternatives and an environmental assessment. That would take three years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo restore this parcel of land does a lot to lift the spirit of a community whose spirit has died because of what\u2019s happening with this wall,\u201d says Stephanie Geter, ROCC Board President.<\/p>\n<p>Then, it would take an additional two years and $2 million to create construction drawings and manage the bid process. Shovels could be in the ground in four to five years.<\/p>\n<p>The state funding means a lot to Richard Cummings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got roots here. My grandparents grew up on Girard Place, and my parents right now live right across the street from the park,\u201d says Cummings.<\/p>\n<p>But by the time Cummings moved here in 1969 from Chicago, the trees were already gone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember seeing the construction and the dirt and hearing the pounding,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p>The result ended up dividing the community. A U.B. study done previously showed the investment of this restorative project would pay off with businesses coming back and homes rising in value.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of the homes that we see here around Humboldt have lost their property values incredibly because of this chasm in front of us. But in addition, there have been serious detrimental environmental and health damages to many homes in this parkway,\u201d says Stanley Fleming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo to restore that, to us, means everything. Just brings back to life. It\u2019s our restorative kind of branch happening in this whole reborn Buffalo movement,\u201d says Geter.<\/p>\n<p>The current estimate for the total cost is $570 million, but the work the NYSDOT does with the $6 million will give us a more accurate number.<\/p>\n<p>If ultimately approved, the project would be paid for with a mix of state and federal funding, as well as private donations.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-16{width:100% !important;margin-top : 10px;margin-bottom : 10px;}.fusion-builder-column-16 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 26px !important;margin-right : 0%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 54px !important;margin-left : 0%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-16{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-16 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 0%;margin-left : 0%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) 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fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-18{width:100% !important;margin-top : 10px;margin-bottom : 10px;}.fusion-builder-column-18 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 0px !important;margin-right : 1.92%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 0px !important;margin-left : 1.92%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-18{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-18 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-18{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-18 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}<\/style><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-flex-container.fusion-builder-row-2-17{ padding-top : 0px;margin-top : 5px;padding-right : 0px;padding-bottom : 0px;margin-bottom : 5px;padding-left : 0px;}<\/style><\/div><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2-18 fusion-flex-container hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;border-width: 0px 0 0 0;border-color:#e7e4e2;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"width:100% !important;max-width:100% !important;margin-left: calc(-0% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-0% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-19 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 26px 0px 54px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-14\"><p>Posted: March 30, 2016<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalorising.com\/2016\/03\/buffalo-should-invite-foxx-to-come-and-examine-this-citys-past-urban-freeway-mistakes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Buffalo Rising<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><div ><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-3 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"528\" title=\"Humboldt-Fix-Buffalo-NY-730&#215;502-768&#215;528\" src=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Humboldt-Fix-Buffalo-NY-730x502-768x528-1.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Humboldt-Fix-Buffalo-NY-730x502-768x528-1.jpg\" class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-2991\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27768%27%20height%3D%27528%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20768%20528%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27768%27%20height%3D%27528%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Humboldt-Fix-Buffalo-NY-730x502-768x528-1-200x138.jpg 200w, http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Humboldt-Fix-Buffalo-NY-730x502-768x528-1-400x275.jpg 400w, http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Humboldt-Fix-Buffalo-NY-730x502-768x528-1-600x413.jpg 600w, http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Humboldt-Fix-Buffalo-NY-730x502-768x528-1.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-15\"><\/p>\n<p>Buffalo is not the only city in America that is faced with highways that run through its parks, and freeways that blockade its people from the waterfront. Numerous other cities around the world are faced with similar issues, although there is a growing movement to remove the troublesome roadways that tend to tear urban communities apart. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/trafficandcommuting\/defeating-the-legacy-of-highways-rammed-through-poor-neighborhoods\/2016\/03\/28\/ffcfb5ae-f2a1-11e5-a61f-e9c95c06edca_story.html\">WaPo has posted an article<\/a>, written by Ashley Halsey III, which recounts the thoughts, recollections and policy wishes of US Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx who discovered firsthand the pitfalls of freeways after being physically torn away from the urban fabric of his hometown Charlotte, NC.<\/p>\n<p>Like Buffalo\u2019s East Side, this is a story of a man and a people who were divided from the fruits of city. Today Buffalo\u2019s East Side continues to reel from the archaic transportation decisions that made it easier for people to get in and out of the city, at the expense of those who were currently living in it.<\/p>\n<p>Now Foxx is on a mission to right some of these wrongs. He\u2019s talking about doing away with the freeways and bringing back sidewalks and bike lanes to people who have gone without long enough. He\u2019s looking at long term population growth, and a need to accommodate people who want to walk to a store rather than driving across town.<\/p>\n<p>Foxx is reaching out to city and state leaders, to impress upon them the need to reconnect their cities by tearing down the sunken walls. When these freeways were built, the poorest communities suffered the most thanks to urban renewal measures. Neighborhoods were ruptured and demolished, leaving in their wake public housing and isolated neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo should invite Foxx to come and examine this city\u2019s past urban freeway mistakes. Enough pain has been endured. If one is to take into account that Buffalo is the third poorest city in the nation, and half of the city\u2019s geography is disconnected from the neighborhoods that are experiencing a renaissance, there is an urgency at hand that must be addressed.<\/p>\n<p>The freeways in question are all interconnected, calling for a sweeping plan to reconnect a disenfranchised people to the heart of the city, and an entire populace to one of the world\u2019s greatest assets \u2013 Lake Erie and the Niagara River.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lead image: Neighbors living around Humboldt Parkway\/Kensington Expressway are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalorising.com\/2014\/07\/humboldt-parkway-the-dream-of-a-green-parkway\/\">rallying together<\/a> in hopes that one day they might see the revitalization of their neighborhood, with a transition from freeway to \u201cGreen Parkway\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalorising.com\/2016\/03\/buffalo-should-invite-foxx-to-come-and-examine-this-citys-past-urban-freeway-mistakes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the original article.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-19{width:100% !important;margin-top : 10px;margin-bottom : 10px;}.fusion-builder-column-19 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 26px !important;margin-right : 0%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 54px !important;margin-left : 0%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-19{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-19 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 0%;margin-left : 0%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-19{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-19 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 0%;margin-left : 0%;}}<\/style><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-flex-container.fusion-builder-row-2-18{ padding-top : 0px;margin-top : 0px;padding-right : 3%;padding-bottom : 0px;margin-bottom : 0px;padding-left : 0%;}<\/style><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-meta-info\"><div class=\"fusion-alignleft\"><span class=\"vcard\" style=\"display: none;\"><span class=\"fn\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/?author=1\" title=\"Posts by nbd9e65bg\" rel=\"author\">nbd9e65bg<\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"updated\" style=\"display:none;\">2021-10-12T02:21:00+00:00<\/span><span>October 12th, 2021<\/span><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span>Categories: <a href=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/?cat=31\" rel=\"category\">In the News<\/a><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span><span class=\"fusion-comments\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/?p=2989#respond\">0 Comments<\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-alignright\"><a class=\"fusion-read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/?p=2989\" aria-label=\"More on Buffalo should invite Foxx to come and examine this city\u2019s past urban freeway mistakes.\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/article>\n<article id=\"blog-1-post-2993\" class=\"fusion-post-large post-2993 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-in-the-news\">\n\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/style>\n\n\n<div class=\"fusion-post-content post-content\"><div class=\"fusion-post-content-container\"><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2-19 fusion-flex-container hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#e7e4e2;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"width:104% !important;max-width:104% !important;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-20 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;background-color:#ffffff;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-16\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal; 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color: var(--body_typography-color); font-family: var(--body_typography-font-family); font-size: var(--body_typography-font-size); font-style: var(--body_typography-font-style,normal); font-weight: var(--body_typography-font-weight); letter-spacing: var(--body_typography-letter-spacing);\"><br \/>\nThe construction of the Kensington Expressway, displacing hundreds of homes and a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed parkway, is regarded as one of Buffalo\u2019s great blunders. Before construction began in 1957, however, the expressway was pushed by business, labor, and even military interests as necessary to the region\u2019s progress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>At a 1954 Common Council hearing, Chamber of Commerce president Charles Fichtner asserted that the Kensington Expressway is a \u201cgolden opportunity\u201d and that failure of the city to accept the project would be \u201ca little short of civic treason.\u201d Ralph Peo, chairman of the Buffalo Civic Full Employment Committee, urged action, warning that \u201cthere are many thousands of breadwinners among us who are now unemployed.\u201d Major General Edwin Ziegler cited the need for high-speed highways to move people out of Buffalo in the event of enemy attack from the air. Resident objections were dismissed, as Erie County Savings Bank president Dexter Rumsey pleaded, \u201cLet\u2019s not study any more. Let\u2019s move.\u201d The Common Council voted unanimously, in a 15-0 vote, to approve a resolution endorsing the state-sponsored project. This photograph, taken for the New York State Department of Public Works, shows its first phase of construction from Michigan Avenue to Landon Street, completed in 1962.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailypublic.com\/articles\/02022016\/looking-backward-kensington-expressway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the original article.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-22{width:100% !important;margin-top : 10px;margin-bottom : 10px;}.fusion-builder-column-22 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 26px !important;margin-right : 0%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 54px !important;margin-left : 0%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-22{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-22 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 0%;margin-left : 0%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body 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center;background-repeat: no-repeat;border-width: 0px 0 0 0;border-color:#e7e4e2;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"width:100% !important;max-width:100% !important;margin-left: calc(-0% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-0% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-25 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 26px 0px 54px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-20\"><section id=\"module-position-Oe5TynfuRgE\" class=\"storytopbar-bucket story-byline-module\">\n<div class=\"asset-metabar\"><span class=\"asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item\">Kelly Dudzik, WGRZ<\/span><span class=\"asset-metabar-time asset-metabar-item nobyline\">11:28 p.m. EDT October 6, 2015<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"asset-double-wide double-wide p402_premium\">\n<div id=\"module-position-Oe5TytSOu7E\" class=\"story-asset story-leadin-asset\">\n<h2 class=\"lead-in\">Restoring Humboldt Parkway Could Cost $500 Million<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div ><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-5 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"537\" height=\"716\" title=\"635797637669838066-CQqo7xEUkAAlq8P\" src=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/635797637669838066-CQqo7xEUkAAlq8P.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/635797637669838066-CQqo7xEUkAAlq8P.jpg\" class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-3000\" 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asset-inline-share-tools-top\">BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 Correcting what one group calls the \u201cKensington mistake\u201d comes with a huge price tag. The group, Restore Our Community Coalition, estimates it would cost around $500 million to create a green parkway over the 33 from Best Street to Ferry Street.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The stretch we\u2019re talking about goes for almost three-quarters of a mile. It was the topic of a town hall meeting Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Buffalo Common Council approved getting rid of the original parkway back in 1954, and this coalition wants to restore the Kensington back to its original design, a tree-lined parkway, by covering the expressway.<\/p>\n<p>They showed many examples of other cities that have successfully built green parkways over highways including Seattle, Dallas and Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the Restore Our Community Coalition in 2016 is to raise money. Its leaders explained where it could come from.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully, from the federal government and some philanthropists. This has been done across the country and different cities with a combination of both. In some cases, most of the money came from philanthropists, and in other cases most of it came from the government. But no matter what the cost is, we had a study done by UB and it will pay for itself plus create profit to the community\u201d said Richard Cummings from ROCC.<\/p>\n<p>Assemblyman Sean Ryan was at the meeting. His spokesperson tells us that like any major road construction project, this would need a combination of state and federal funding. Ryan is involved now, early on, to help figure out what those funding sources might be.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing has been approved, but this coming year, the Coalition wants to come up with a preliminary design, do an environmental assessment, produce plans, and fundraise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>http:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/story\/news\/local\/buffalo\/2015\/10\/06\/restoring-humboldt-parkway-could-cost-500-million\/73491016\/<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"font-size: 36px;\" data-fusion-font=\"true\">Community members ask for support to restore Humboldt Parkway<\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">By <a class=\"author url fn\" title=\"Posts by Callan Gray, News 4 Reporter\" href=\"http:\/\/wivb.com\/author\/wivbcallangray\/\" rel=\"author\">Callan Gray, News 4 Reporter<\/a> <\/span><span class=\"posted-on\">Published: <time class=\"entry-date published\" datetime=\"2015-10-06T23:38:47+00:00\">October 6, 2015, 11:38 pm<\/time><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- <\/strong>Community leaders in Buffalo want to restore Humboldt Parkway to its former glory. The ambitious plan is still in the preliminary stages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomething of this caliber can be accomplished in the City of Buffalo,\u201d said Bradley Bethel, Jr. with Restore Our Community Coalition (ROCC).<\/p>\n<p>ROCC spoke in front of NYS Department of Transportation representatives and public officials, including Assemblyman Sean Ryan, on Tuesday night. The group has been working on plans to change the road pattern since 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The Kensington Expressway cuts right through East Side neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t cross it to get to a store or even see a neighbor,\u201d said Inez Hord, a longtime resident.<\/p>\n<p>Hord has lived a block from Humboldt Parkway since 1962 and remembers what the road was like before that section of NY-33 was built.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeautiful, with trees, grass and greenery, children playing in the parkway, just beautiful,\u201d said Hord.<\/p>\n<p>A group of community leaders want to restore the parkway.<\/p>\n<p>The DOT has come up with options that include lowering parts of Kensington Expressway and running it underneath a parkway. The next step would include scoping and creating preliminary designs, which could cost six million dollars, according to the DOT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had about two dozen cities across the country who have accomplished this over the past 40 years,\u201d said Bethel.<\/p>\n<p>ROCC estimates it will cost $570 million to fully restore the mile between East Ferry and Best St. The group is now asking for public support so they can secure grants to reunite the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImproved property values, less noise and pollution in our neighborhood, and eventually commercial reinvestment in the Fillmore and Jefferson commercial districts,\u201d said Bethel.<\/p>\n<p>They estimate the project would create more than 900 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Inez Hord said it\u2019s worth paying tax dollars to complete.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be a wonderful thing,\u201d said Hord. \u201cI believe it\u2019s possible but I don\u2019t expect to see it in my lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>http:\/\/wivb.com\/2015\/10\/06\/community-members-ask-for-support-to-restore-humboldt-parkway\/<\/p>\n<header class=\"header\">\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"font-size: 36px;\" data-fusion-font=\"true\">Residents want park built over Kensington Expressway<\/h1>\n<div class=\"story__meta\">\n<div class=\"side__media\">\n<div class=\"media__container--1x1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload media\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/www.wkbw.com\/image\/user_female_portrait?img_id=1244597512&amp;t=1444307766068\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"side__body\">\n<address class=\"byline\"><a href=\"mailto:rachel.elzufon@wkbw.com\">Rachel Elzufon<\/a><\/address>\n<div class=\"posted\">8:47 AM, Oct 7, 2015<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tags\"><a class=\"tag color--skin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wkbw.com\/topic\/buffalo\">buffalo<\/a> | <a class=\"tag color--skin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wkbw.com\/topic\/route+33\">route 33<\/a> | <a class=\"tag color--skin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wkbw.com\/topic\/expressways\">expressways<\/a> | <a class=\"tag color--skin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wkbw.com\/topic\/kensington+expressway\">kensington expressway<\/a> | <a class=\"tag color--skin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wkbw.com\/topic\/parkways\">parkways<\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"module__body\">\n<div class=\"story__media js-gallery js-enabled-fullscreen js-has-autoplay-config is-video-clicked is-loading is-video-playing\" data-autoplay=\"true\">\n<div class=\"gallery__overflow\">\n<div class=\"media-slider__viewport js-gallery__viewport js-fullscreen-targets is-single-media\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div ><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-6 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" title=\"Residents_want_cover_built_over_Kensingt_3521510000_24885913_ver1.0_640_480\" src=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Residents_want_cover_built_over_Kensingt_3521510000_24885913_ver1.0_640_480.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Residents_want_cover_built_over_Kensingt_3521510000_24885913_ver1.0_640_480.jpg\" class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-3002\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27640%27%20height%3D%27360%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20640%20360%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27640%27%20height%3D%27360%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Residents_want_cover_built_over_Kensingt_3521510000_24885913_ver1.0_640_480-200x113.jpg 200w, http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Residents_want_cover_built_over_Kensingt_3521510000_24885913_ver1.0_640_480-400x225.jpg 400w, http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Residents_want_cover_built_over_Kensingt_3521510000_24885913_ver1.0_640_480-600x338.jpg 600w, http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Residents_want_cover_built_over_Kensingt_3521510000_24885913_ver1.0_640_480.jpg 640w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-22\"><div class=\"module__body\">\n<div class=\"story__media js-gallery js-enabled-fullscreen js-has-autoplay-config is-video-clicked is-loading is-video-playing\" data-autoplay=\"true\">\n<div class=\"media__caption__container js-gallery__caption js-is-closed js-is-video\">\n<div class=\"media__caption__content\">\n<div class=\"media__caption-bottom\">\n<div class=\"caption__author x author\">\nBUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) \u2013 Residents of the Humboldt Parkway neighborhood came out Tuesday night to build support for their idea to build a park over the Kensington Expressway.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"layout__container\">\n<div class=\"story__content\" data-internal-keywords=\"\">\n<div class=\"js-pagination\" data-maxpages=\"1\">\n<div class=\"story__content__body p402_premium story__content__body \">\n<p>Residents say Rt. 33 divides the historic neighborhood. Those activists, with the Restore our Community Coalition, want the neighborhood to have a similar feel for what it used to be.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting took place Monday night at the Frank Merriweather Library.<\/p>\n<p>Activists say \u201cthe mistake was to destroy a central piece to an internationally acclaimed park system, dividing a community, leaving a roadway as a scar that continues to serve as a physical and psychological barrier to full economic participation by all areas of Buffalo.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advocates also believe that putting an expressway so close to homes causes health issues.<\/p>\n<p>The coalition had four goals Monday night: to discuss preliminary design ideas, discuss other parks that cover highways, review the original parkway in the Kensington Expressway\u2019s place and talk about how to raise awareness.<\/p>\n<p>According to the community coalition, the Expressway \u201cdestroyed the clean, green gathering space along Humboldt Parkway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roccbuffalo.org\/\">Restore Our Community Coalition<\/a> was organized in 2007.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>http:\/\/www.wkbw.com\/news\/residents-way-park-built-over-kensington-expressway<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-25{width:100% !important;margin-top : 10px;margin-bottom : 10px;}.fusion-builder-column-25 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 26px !important;margin-right : 0%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 54px !important;margin-left : 0%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-25{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-25 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 0%;margin-left : 0%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-25{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-25 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 0%;margin-left : 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center;background-repeat: no-repeat;border-width: 0px 0 0 0;border-color:#e7e4e2;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"width:100% !important;max-width:100% !important;margin-left: calc(-0% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-0% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-28 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 26px 0px 54px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-24\"><section id=\"module-position-Oe5TynfuRgE\" class=\"storytopbar-bucket story-byline-module\">\n<div class=\"asset-metabar\">\n<p>Posted: September 15, 2015<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/beltmag.com\/tied-together-and-torn-apart-by-parkways\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Belt Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><div ><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-7 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"360\" title=\"6a11835v-640&#215;300-768&#215;360\" src=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/6a11835v-640x300-768x360-1.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/6a11835v-640x300-768x360-1.jpg\" class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-3006\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27768%27%20height%3D%27360%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20768%20360%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27768%27%20height%3D%27360%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/6a11835v-640x300-768x360-1-200x94.jpg 200w, http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/6a11835v-640x300-768x360-1-400x188.jpg 400w, http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/6a11835v-640x300-768x360-1-600x281.jpg 600w, http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/6a11835v-640x300-768x360-1.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-25\"><p>(Photo: WGRZ)<\/p>\n<div class=\"asset-double-wide double-wide p402_premium\">\n<div id=\"module-position-Oe5TytS0C90\" class=\"story-asset inline-share-tools-asset\">\n<div class=\"inline-share-tools asset-inline-share-tools asset-inline-share-tools-top\">BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 Correcting what one group calls the \u201cKensington mistake\u201d comes with a huge price tag. The group, Restore Our Community Coalition, estimates it would cost around $500 million to create a green parkway over the 33 from Best Street to Ferry Street.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The stretch we\u2019re talking about goes for almost three-quarters of a mile. It was the topic of a town hall meeting Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Buffalo Common Council approved getting rid of the original parkway back in 1954, and this coalition wants to restore the Kensington back to its original design, a tree-lined parkway, by covering the expressway.<\/p>\n<p>They showed many examples of other cities that have successfully built green parkways over highways including Seattle, Dallas and Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of the Restore Our Community Coalition in 2016 is to raise money. Its leaders explained where it could come from.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHopefully, from the federal government and some philanthropists. This has been done across the country and different cities with a combination of both. In some cases, most of the money came from philanthropists, and in other cases most of it came from the government. But no matter what the cost is, we had a study done by UB and it will pay for itself plus create profit to the community\u201d said Richard Cummings from ROCC.<\/p>\n<p>Assemblyman Sean Ryan was at the meeting. His spokesperson tells us that like any major road construction project, this would need a combination of state and federal funding. Ryan is involved now, early on, to help figure out what those funding sources might be.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing has been approved, but this coming year, the Coalition wants to come up with a preliminary design, do an environmental assessment, produce plans, and fundraise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>http:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/story\/news\/local\/buffalo\/2015\/10\/06\/restoring-humboldt-parkway-could-cost-500-million\/73491016\/<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"font-size: 36px;\" data-fusion-font=\"true\">Community members ask for support to restore Humboldt Parkway<\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">By <a class=\"author url fn\" title=\"Posts by Callan Gray, News 4 Reporter\" href=\"http:\/\/wivb.com\/author\/wivbcallangray\/\" rel=\"author\">Callan Gray, News 4 Reporter<\/a> <\/span><span class=\"posted-on\">Published: <time class=\"entry-date published\" datetime=\"2015-10-06T23:38:47+00:00\">October 6, 2015, 11:38 pm<\/time><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><strong>BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB)- <\/strong>Community leaders in Buffalo want to restore Humboldt Parkway to its former glory. The ambitious plan is still in the preliminary stages.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomething of this caliber can be accomplished in the City of Buffalo,\u201d said Bradley Bethel, Jr. with Restore Our Community Coalition (ROCC).<\/p>\n<p>ROCC spoke in front of NYS Department of Transportation representatives and public officials, including Assemblyman Sean Ryan, on Tuesday night. The group has been working on plans to change the road pattern since 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The Kensington Expressway cuts right through East Side neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t cross it to get to a store or even see a neighbor,\u201d said Inez Hord, a longtime resident.<\/p>\n<p>Hord has lived a block from Humboldt Parkway since 1962 and remembers what the road was like before that section of NY-33 was built.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeautiful, with trees, grass and greenery, children playing in the parkway, just beautiful,\u201d said Hord.<\/p>\n<p>A group of community leaders want to restore the parkway.<\/p>\n<p>The DOT has come up with options that include lowering parts of Kensington Expressway and running it underneath a parkway. The next step would include scoping and creating preliminary designs, which could cost six million dollars, according to the DOT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had about two dozen cities across the country who have accomplished this over the past 40 years,\u201d said Bethel.<\/p>\n<p>ROCC estimates it will cost $570 million to fully restore the mile between East Ferry and Best St. The group is now asking for public support so they can secure grants to reunite the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImproved property values, less noise and pollution in our neighborhood, and eventually commercial reinvestment in the Fillmore and Jefferson commercial districts,\u201d said Bethel.<\/p>\n<p>They estimate the project would create more than 900 jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Inez Hord said it\u2019s worth paying tax dollars to complete.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt would be a wonderful thing,\u201d said Hord. \u201cI believe it\u2019s possible but I don\u2019t expect to see it in my lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>http:\/\/wivb.com\/2015\/10\/06\/community-members-ask-for-support-to-restore-humboldt-parkway\/<\/p>\n<header class=\"header\">\n<h1 class=\"headline\" style=\"font-size: 36px;\" data-fusion-font=\"true\">Residents want park built over Kensington Expressway<\/h1>\n<div class=\"story__meta\">\n<div class=\"side__media\">\n<div class=\"media__container--1x1\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload media\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/www.wkbw.com\/image\/user_female_portrait?img_id=1244597512&amp;t=1444307766068\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"side__body\">\n<address class=\"byline\"><a href=\"mailto:rachel.elzufon@wkbw.com\">Rachel Elzufon<\/a><\/address>\n<div class=\"posted\">8:47 AM, Oct 7, 2015<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tags\"><a class=\"tag color--skin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wkbw.com\/topic\/buffalo\">buffalo<\/a> | <a class=\"tag color--skin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wkbw.com\/topic\/route+33\">route 33<\/a> | <a class=\"tag color--skin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wkbw.com\/topic\/expressways\">expressways<\/a> | <a class=\"tag color--skin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wkbw.com\/topic\/kensington+expressway\">kensington expressway<\/a> | <a class=\"tag color--skin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wkbw.com\/topic\/parkways\">parkways<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"module__body\">\n<div class=\"story__media js-gallery js-enabled-fullscreen js-has-autoplay-config is-video-clicked is-loading is-video-playing\" data-autoplay=\"true\">\n<div class=\"gallery__overflow\">\n<div class=\"media-slider__viewport js-gallery__viewport js-fullscreen-targets is-single-media\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><div ><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-8 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" title=\"Residents_want_cover_built_over_Kensingt_3521510000_24885913_ver1.0_640_480\" src=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Residents_want_cover_built_over_Kensingt_3521510000_24885913_ver1.0_640_480.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Residents_want_cover_built_over_Kensingt_3521510000_24885913_ver1.0_640_480.jpg\" class=\"lazyload img-responsive wp-image-3002\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27640%27%20height%3D%27360%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20640%20360%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27640%27%20height%3D%27360%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Residents_want_cover_built_over_Kensingt_3521510000_24885913_ver1.0_640_480-200x113.jpg 200w, http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Residents_want_cover_built_over_Kensingt_3521510000_24885913_ver1.0_640_480-400x225.jpg 400w, http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Residents_want_cover_built_over_Kensingt_3521510000_24885913_ver1.0_640_480-600x338.jpg 600w, http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Residents_want_cover_built_over_Kensingt_3521510000_24885913_ver1.0_640_480.jpg 640w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-26\"><div class=\"module__body\">\n<div class=\"story__media js-gallery js-enabled-fullscreen js-has-autoplay-config is-video-clicked is-loading is-video-playing\" data-autoplay=\"true\">\n<div class=\"media__caption__container js-gallery__caption js-is-closed js-is-video\">\n<div class=\"media__caption__content\">\n<div class=\"media__caption-bottom\">\n<div class=\"caption__author x author\">\n<h3>Buffalo\u2019s historic parkway system may be key to its friendly spirit. But parts of it have been ripped up \u2014 to dismaying result. What can a Rust Belt city do now?<\/h3>\n<p>Two months after moving to Buffalo, I found myself spinning my wheels. My car tires whined, getting no traction in the already-packed November snow. A gentleman in a suit charged by, then stopped. \u201cOh, I\u2019m not in any hurry,\u201d he said. Despite his blazer and slick dress shoes, he spent the next 15 minutes steering, directing, and outright pushing my car out.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d just been living in Austin, Texas, known for its warmth \u2014 both figurative and literal \u2014 and laid-back vibe. But only in Buffalo had I experienced unrushed help from someone clearly heading to work, and even in the freezing cold. The lesson seemed obvious: Bad weather breeds neighborliness.<\/p>\n<p>Yet once warm air floated in, it became clear the feeling ran deeper than snow. When summer hit, Buffalo\u2019s population looked like it had ballooned. Crowds thicken for farmers\u2019 markets, block parties, and concerts. Setting up blankets, couples steal tender moments, and mothers coo at little ones as if they were in their own yard. People read, sunbathe, picnic, and take workout classes right there in public. They play sports as sedate as croquet and as zany as AcroYoga out where everybody can join in.<\/p>\n<p>And there\u2019s communal space for it all. All that activity happens on parkways \u2014 essentially wide, grassy medians shaded by elms. Buffalo has an elaborate historic parkway system that many experts call key to its social connectedness.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/nr\/travel\/massachusetts_conservation\/frederick_law_olmsted.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">History\u2019s original landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted<\/a>, drew it up. Fresh from success with Central Park in Manhattan and Prospect Park in Brooklyn, Olmsted created the country\u2019s first parkway system here. It enhanced what he called the \u201cbest planned city in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>These public greens \u2014 along with their front porches and closely spaced houses \u2014 nudge Buffalonians to relax together rather than retreat to separate backyards as in so many newer cities. And that in turn may foster neighborliness \u2014 or at least it does in my part of town, the Elmwood Village, where the old Victorians are dense and the parkways are best-preserved. The American Planning Association has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.planning.org\/newsreleases\/2007\/oct02-4.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">named it one of the 10 greatest neighborhoods in the country<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since moving to the city several years ago, young preservationist and creative placemaker Dana Saylor has regularly found Buffalonians to be as open and helpful as I did, one block from an Olmsted parkway, that wintry day. Saylor studies how people use spaces, and she is fascinated by how Buffalo\u2019s parkways get treated like public front yards. \u201cMaybe Buffalo is that way because we have those spaces,\u201d she says. \u201cYou have to ask how much having parks and parkways since 1876 has shaped people and how they\u2019ve related to one another. I do think the parkway system is in all these Buffalonians\u2019 psyches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But there\u2019s also a darker side. Over the years, Buffalo has in places cut into Olmsted\u2019s vision \u2014 and ripped into the city\u2019s social fabric. The city turned its grandest parkway, Humboldt, into an expressway in the \u201960s, and it cut the Scajaquada Expressway, or 198, through crown-jewel Delaware Park. The value of roadside homes plunged, and surrounding neighborhoods like Parkside and Hamlin Park struggled.<\/p>\n<p>Then in June, a three-year-old boy was killed, and his five-year-old sister injured, when a driver lost control on the 198 and barreled into the park. Pedestrians are all too often hit by cars in the U.S. But in Buffalo, the toddler\u2019s death struck a nerve. Within days, the speed limit on the road was dropped 20 miles per hour, from 50 to 30, by the governor\u2019s order. A guardrail was hastily put up.<\/p>\n<p>Public debate has been escalating ever since. If the parkway system fosters social cohesion in the areas where it\u2019s been preserved \u2014 but actually damages the quality of life in neighborhoods where it\u2019s been ripped up \u2014 what can be done today in a Rust Belt city like Buffalo?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Olmsted\u2019s Vision<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The story started like those of many cities in the region: with great wealth. Buffalo had Gilded Age money and big ambitions in the 1860s. But 40 years after the opening of the Erie Canal, it was growing crowded and industrial. Its waterfront was jammed with huge, stark grain elevators that few but the European modernists found attractive. Civic leaders asked Olmsted, fresh from success in New York City and traveling to Chicago for new projects, to stop in and see what the city might do for beautiful parks here.<\/p>\n<p>Taking in the city by carriage, Olmsted was impressed with the potential that its open space and waterfront promised. Working with Calvert Vaux, he envisioned three great parks: the Parade for military exercises, Front Park for overlooking Lake Erie and the Niagara River, and Delaware Park for a countryside feel. And these parks would all be connected by pleasant routes to reach them. This was an avant-garde idea in 1860s planning \u2014 inspired in part by the grand boulevards of Paris, but never tried in the United States. They called the routes \u201cparkways.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Olmsted described the 200-foot-wide parkways as a new type of public space: \u201ca series of roads and walks adapted exclusively for pleasure travel, occupied by turf, trees, shrubs and flowers. Thus at not great distance from any point in the town, a pleasure ground will be suitable for a short stroll, a playground for children, an airing ground for invalids,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThe way itself would be more parklike than townlike.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his time, of course, Olmsted could hardly have imagined some of the ways today\u2019s Buffalonians would use these public spaces. The Victorians would have been scandalized by people contorting their bodies into yoga poses while wearing nothing but tights, for instance. Olmsted intended the parkways to be formal and individually \u201cennobling,\u201d local preservationist Tim Tielman notes. Their use in areas like Elmwood Village\u2019s Bidwell Parkway tweaks Olmsted\u2019s original plan for formality and grandeur, he says.<\/p>\n<p>But Olmsted, the experts agree, intended for the parkways to unite people of different backgrounds \u2014 and in that, he would be satisfied with modern uses. \u201cHe was a guy with a lot of social theories,\u201d says Francis Kowsky. A SUNY Distinguished Professor of Fine Arts emeritus, Kowsky wrote\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sah.org\/conferences-and-programs\/award-programs\/sah-award-for-film-and-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the authoritative book on Olmsted, Vaux, and Buffalo\u2019s park system<\/a>. Sitting on a cafe patio overlooking the Elmwood Village\u2019s Bidwell Parkway on a summer morning, Kowsky describes how Olmsted worked in the public interest with his parks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe had a word, communitiveness, which was a kind of community spirit,\u201d Kowsky says. \u201cOne of his concerns about American society was that it was too individualistic, too everybody for himself. His parkways were a physical way of trying to encourage people to come together. He said his parks were neutral ground for every class, rich or poor, as a universal place of recreation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo\u2019s leaders were convinced as much for financial reasons as egalitarian ideas. Property values would be higher along the parkways, Olmsted promised. That would help the city make up the cost of the land. Housing would be dense. That way the areas could be served by public transportation in the form of trolleys. In 1870, work began.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pastoral Dreams and Traffic Nightmares<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For half a century, the parkways graced Buffalo, staying mostly as they were even as the city grew. Picnicking in them was especially popular. Neat rows of American elms reached up and toward each other, feeling from underneath like a green cathedral. But the bridle paths down their centers became less used as horses fell out of style.<\/p>\n<p>Cars were chugging ahead, and there were rumblings that the park system should make way. In 1937, an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vermontmodern.com\/Home\/architects-designers\/walter-curt-behrendt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">urban planner named Walter Curt Behrendt<\/a>\u00a0came to the city. He was German, and an advocate of modernism in his home country. But even he urged that the old parkways here be saved forever. In a\u00a0<em>Buffalo News<\/em>\u00a0story, he called for \u201ca strong and never-ceasing vigilance assuring that this most valuable inheritance will never be impaired or destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After World War II, however, people weren\u2019t turning to history. They talked progress. The paths Frederick Law Olmsted had laid out alongside nature would become asphalt tracks for cars. At 200 feet, the parkways were wide enough for four-lane expressways. Dutch elm disease had been claiming many of the parkway trees around the same time. Leaders chopped the grandest parade of them all, Humboldt Parkway, into a highway, and cut another through Delaware Park.<\/p>\n<p>Stephanie Barber Geter was eight years old then. She remembers making snowballs and seeing the occasional picnic blanket out in her neighborhood, which was racially integrating at that time. \u201cI think the families and people when they entered the neighborhood changed because it was a place that commanded your attention,\u201d she says. \u201cThere was no standing on the corner, [or] racing down the road, because the park created a peaceful place that demanded your respect. It made you be different. Nature does that to us all, doesn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once the trucks and dynamite came in, the atmosphere changed fast. White families mostly left. What had felt to her like one big neighborhood eventually became five very separate ones: Humboldt Park, Hamlin Park, Trinidad Park, Kingsley, and the Fruit Belt. The business districts on nearby Jefferson and Fillmore avenues died out. Drugs were sold on corners. Property values plunged.<\/p>\n<p>Geter became president of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/buffalorising.com\/2013\/05\/the-hamlin-park-neighborhood-a-strong-community-and-one-you-should-be-seriously-considering\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hamlin Park Community and Taxpayers Association<\/a>\u00a0and tracked everything she saw in the area, which had become predominately black. That included deadly health consequences \u2014 what struck her as high rates of upper respiratory infections, lupus, asthma, and cancer \u2014 among residents living along the highway. She blamed pollution.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a tale of two cities compared to where the parkways were left intact. Elmwood Village went through its own rough patch when Buffalo\u2019s industries bottomed out in the \u201980s and \u201990s. But laced with porches, trees, and green space, this neighborhood turned around. Its business stretch, Elmwood Avenue, once included a so-called Needle Alley for drug exchanges; now apartments are being built next to a gourmet store on the spot. Homes within 10 blocks of a parkway still sell at higher rates.<\/p>\n<p>Along Elmwood\u2019s parkways, people to this day find friends. Ben Madoff, 34, moved to Buffalo from Ithaca a few years ago. He grew up painfully shy, and still often pauses as he thinks out what to say. But he found his community when he tried\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inquisitr.com\/2322726\/acro-yoga-new-practice-combines-yoga-and-acrobatics-called-the-new-couples-therapy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AcroYoga \u2014 an acrobatics-yoga meld<\/a>\u00a0that has people balancing on each other like an everyman\u2019s Cirque du Soleil.<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo\u2019s group practices weekly in Bidwell Parkway and in Delaware Park in summer, or until it gets so cold their toes go numb. Others groups juggle, hula hoop, spin fire, drum, and try slacklining and parkour alongside them. Madoff is an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/acro-wny.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AcroYoga organizer<\/a>\u00a0now, and he fields the questions from curious people walking by. He invites them to try it. \u201cBuffalo,\u201d he says, \u201cis the place where I talk to people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, Madoff took the parkways for granted until his parents visited from Toledo. \u201cThey were just blown away,\u201d he remembers. \u201cMy dad kept asking me, \u2018Who paid for all this? Who made this happen?\u2019 I confess I don\u2019t know much of the history of the Buffalo Olmsted parks, but I explained a lot about this area and the things we take for granted. We\u2019re really lucky to have all the green space we have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Buffalonians also call truces along the parkways. Tielman, for example, has gone head-to-head with government officials and developers over the years. But when he used to live near Chapin Parkway, a funny thing would happen. If he would run into an opponent there, they\u2019d both be pleasant. \u201cThere\u2019s an unspoken thing sometimes,\u201d he says. \u201cIf I\u2019m walking on the parkway with my kids, and someone\u2019s walking their dog, you\u2019re exchanging pleasantries and appreciating the vibe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One mile away, along what are now expressways, there\u2019s little space for encounters like those to happen. And then this summer, things turned lethal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where From Here<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Olmsted\u2019s Delaware Park, now bisected by the Scajaquada Expressway, also called the 198, today hosts a pond on its smaller side and a scrappy golf course on its bigger one. Besides the basketball and tennis courts, the nearly two-mile asphalt road ringing the golf course sees the most action. It\u2019s mostly closed to cars, so cyclists, runners, and walkers take big laps there.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Sugorovskiy was strolling the road with her two children, three-year-old Maksym and five-year-old Stephanie, one bright Saturday morning in June. Stephanie had just finished a soccer game in the park. Mary stopped to let the kids switch places.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/city-region\/family-mourns-death-of-boy-3-in-delaware-park-tragedy-20150531\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Before she could grab their hands and rip them out of the path, a Chevy Malibu plowed off the highway<\/a>\u00a0into the family. Stephanie was rushed to the hospital, seriously injured. Maksym died. The driver knelt in the park and sobbed.<\/p>\n<p>With the speed of a match, the toddler\u2019s death seemed to relight the fire surrounding Buffalo\u2019s park system. Maksym\u2019s parents seemed to understand that his death played into the city\u2019s larger story. \u201cI heard that people petitioned five years ago or so,\u201d his father, Wally Sugorovskiy, told the local news. \u201cPeople have been doing that, and something tragic has to happen before something really gets pushed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"block-text-right\">Changes were near-instant. A guardrail was immediately erected. The speed limit was dropped at the governor\u2019s order. A town hall meeting was called in mid-July by community groups who\u2019d come together as the Scajaquada Corridor Coalition. They were calling for volunteers for various committees to work on changes to the highway. But public upset was evident even there. \u201cIt\u2019s revenge for a dead kid!\u201d one driver shouted.<\/p>\n<p>Pushback continued in the newspaper. Local newspaper columnist Rod Watson\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/columns\/rod-watson\/time-to-talk-sense-about-speed-for-the-198-20150708\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called for efficiency-minded drivers to overrun \u201cOlmsted groupies\u201d at public meetings<\/a>\u00a0if they wanted to keep moving through the city on its modern-day expressways. Olmsted groupies, he explains by phone from the newsroom later, tend to be people of high socioeconomic status.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey talk about the connections between the parks,\u201d he says. \u201cI suppose it was nice in its day, but times change. Things move on. When people are \u2014 I don\u2019t want to say stuck in the past \u2014 but you have to recognize reality, too. Especially on transportation. Anything that can get you from one place to another quickly I\u2019m in favor of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nobody has an easy solution. The speed limit on the Scajaquada through Delaware Park has stayed lower, despite grumbling. There is talk about\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/buffalorising.com\/2015\/08\/scajaquada-traffic-calming-efforts-raise-more-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">infusing \u201ctraffic-calming measures,\u201d like speed bumps<\/a>, as well. With\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bfloparks.org\/positions\/198-scajaquada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">groups like the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy<\/a>, local politicians, and even hashtags behind what they call \u201cright-sizing\u201d that highway, the movement looks to be edging toward more permanent change, though whether it will take the form of a parkway is uncertain.<\/p>\n<p>Along the other expressway, the Kensington (once Humboldt Parkway, and now also called the 33), solutions would be even more complex \u2014 and costly. Watson likes one local idea: running at least part of the highway underground and planting green space above. \u201cThe thing I like about that is it doesn\u2019t impede the expressway,\u201d he says. \u201cYou\u2019d have the best of both worlds. It\u2019d be expensive, but we\u2019ve done a lot of other expensive things around here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Geter now advocates for that, too, as president of the Restore Our Community Coalition. The<a href=\"http:\/\/news.wbfo.org\/post\/community-coalition-calls-restoration-humboldt-parkway\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">coalition held a march and rally for tunneling the highway<\/a>\u00a0that drew 100 supporters on a Saturday afternoon in August. Citing studies from SUNY-Buffalo and the New York State Department of Transportation, Geter said that \u00a0\u201ccapping\u201d the expressway would cost upwards of $500 million and supply up to 1,000 local jobs. The \u201cBuffalo Billion\u201d that Gov. Andrew Cuomo pledged to regional development has not so far included such a project; the coalition hopes it could tap into federal funds.<\/p>\n<p>The urban planning mistakes of years past have been fixed in metros like\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/6-freeway-demolitions-that-changed-their-cities-forever-1548314937\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco, Portland, and Boston, where prominent highways have been made into tunnels topped with parks<\/a>. But those are larger cities with the money to invest, the appetite to grow, and the vision to improve quality of life.<\/p>\n<p>Boston was better for the \u201cBig Dig\u201d that left it with the Rose F. Kennedy Greenway,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonmagazine.com\/news\/article\/2013\/09\/24\/mayor-tom-menino-big-dig-photos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Boston Magazine<\/em>\u00a0reported<\/a>. Property values more than doubled, crime dropped, and the economy grew. But it became the most expensive highway project in U.S. history, at $22 billion. Can today\u2019s Rust Belt cities manage even a fraction of that?<\/p>\n<p>Social cohesion and quality of life can be hard to quantify. I can only wonder: Would the very first Buffalo driver who came along have been as apt to stop and help me push my car out of the snow along a freeway as he did one block off a parkway? There\u2019s no way to know.<\/p>\n<p>For now, there\u2019s little doubt that Frederick Law Olmsted\u2019s parkways knit some local neighborhoods together. Others, with those parkways torn out, have been left to struggle. In the next few years, Buffalo will decide: accept today\u2019s separations indefinitely, or try to somehow claw back toward its old parkways.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/beltmag.com\/tied-together-and-torn-apart-by-parkways\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the original.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-28{width:100% !important;margin-top : 10px;margin-bottom : 10px;}.fusion-builder-column-28 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 26px !important;margin-right : 0%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 54px !important;margin-left : 0%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-28{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-28 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 0%;margin-left : 0%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-28{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-28 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 0%;margin-left : 0%;}}<\/style><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-flex-container.fusion-builder-row-2-27{ padding-top : 0px;margin-top : 0px;padding-right : 3%;padding-bottom : 0px;margin-bottom : 0px;padding-left : 0%;}<\/style><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-meta-info\"><div class=\"fusion-alignleft\"><span class=\"vcard\" style=\"display: none;\"><span class=\"fn\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/?author=1\" title=\"Posts by nbd9e65bg\" rel=\"author\">nbd9e65bg<\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"updated\" style=\"display:none;\">2021-10-12T02:25:29+00:00<\/span><span>October 12th, 2021<\/span><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span>Categories: <a href=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/?cat=31\" rel=\"category\">In the News<\/a><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span><span class=\"fusion-comments\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/?p=3004#respond\">0 Comments<\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-alignright\"><a class=\"fusion-read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/?p=3004\" aria-label=\"More on Tied Together \u2014 and Torn Apart \u2014 By Parkways\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/article>\n<article id=\"blog-1-post-3008\" class=\"fusion-post-large post-3008 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-in-the-news\">\n\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/style>\n\n\n<div class=\"fusion-post-content post-content\"><div class=\"fusion-post-content-container\"><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2-28 fusion-flex-container hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: #ffffff;background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#e7e4e2;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start\" style=\"width:104% !important;max-width:104% !important;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-29 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;background-color:#ffffff;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-27\"><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: normal; 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Stephanie Geter remembers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was gorgeous. Four trees across all the way from Delaware Park all the way downtown,\u201d said Geter, who now lives in the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s talking about the space between Humboldt Parkway north and southbound. It looked much different before the late 1950s, when work began to build an expressway to help commuters get from the city to the suburbs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 33 went in and really divided the community, what was a beautiful portion of the Olmstead Park System, beautiful homes,\u201d said Mayor Byron Brown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has dramatically decreased property values, and it has impacted commercial development along Fillmore and Jefferson Avenue, and it has impacted overall morale around the East Side,\u201d said Bradley Bethel, Jr. He\u2019s a research associate with the Restoring Our Community Coalition.<\/p>\n<p>Geter is now chair of the group, which is working to change that.<\/p>\n<p>ROCC marched along Humboldt Parkway on Saturday to help bring attention to their effort to build a park deck over the expressway. That would involve digging the roadway deeper and constructing cover over it, essentially turning the 33 into a tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>ROCC said the plan would have environmental, visual, and economic benefits, and they\u2019re hoping for help from federal officials to make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>Brown said he supports reconnecting the neighborhood. He said the project could cost hundreds of millions of dollars that would need to come from a federal source.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one of those things that many consider a planning error that occurred in the City of Buffalo, and being able to reconnect both sides of the community\u2026is something many people support,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>ROCC said a UB study shows economic boosts could include a potential new tax base of $2.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>According to some, the best impact could be including this neighborhood in the city\u2019s overall revitalization.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.twcnews.com\/nys\/buffalo\/news\/2015\/08\/8\/rocc-march-and-rally.html<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-31{width:100% !important;margin-top : 10px;margin-bottom : 10px;}.fusion-builder-column-31 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 26px !important;margin-right : 0%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 54px 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class=\"updated\" style=\"display:none;\">2021-10-12T02:27:08+00:00<\/span><span>October 12th, 2021<\/span><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span>Categories: <a href=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/?cat=31\" rel=\"category\">In the News<\/a><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span><span class=\"fusion-comments\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/?p=3008#respond\">0 Comments<\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-alignright\"><a class=\"fusion-read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/?p=3008\" aria-label=\"More on Taking Steps Toward New Future for Rt. 33\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/article>\n<article id=\"blog-1-post-3011\" class=\"fusion-post-large post-3011 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-in-the-news\">\n\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/style>\n\n\n<div class=\"fusion-post-content post-content\"><div class=\"fusion-post-content-container\"><div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-2-31 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style=\"font-weight: normal; font-size: 36px; color: #000000;\" data-fusion-font=\"true\">Buffalo group wants park built over Rt. 33<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator\" style=\"align-self: center;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;width:100%;max-width:20PX;\"><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-32{width:100% !important;margin-top : 10px;margin-bottom : 10px;}.fusion-builder-column-32 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 0px !important;margin-right : 1.92%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 0px !important;margin-left : 1.92%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-32{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-32 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-32{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-32 > 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(WKBW) \u2013 Buffalo neighbors living along Humboldt Parkway have been fighting for years to restore their community to the grandeur it once was.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"layout__container\">\n<div class=\"story__content\">\n<div class=\"js-pagination\" data-maxpages=\"1\">\n<div class=\"story__content__body p402_premium story__content__body \">\n<p>Saturday, the Restore Our Community group called on the City of Buffalo to build a parkway over the Kensington Expressway, connecting the Humboldt Parkway Community to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus.<\/p>\n<p>Advocates say the route used to be tree-lined and beautiful until the construction of the Kensington Expressway over 60 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The group is hoping to raise enough awareness for public funding.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.wkbw.com\/news\/buffalo-group-wants-park-built-over-the-33<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-34{width:100% !important;margin-top : 10px;margin-bottom : 10px;}.fusion-builder-column-34 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 26px !important;margin-right : 0%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 54px !important;margin-left : 0%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-34{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-34 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 0%;margin-left : 0%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-34{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-34 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 0%;margin-left : 0%;}}<\/style><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-flex-container.fusion-builder-row-2-33{ padding-top : 0px;margin-top : 0px;padding-right : 3%;padding-bottom : 0px;margin-bottom : 0px;padding-left : 0%;}<\/style><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-meta-info\"><div class=\"fusion-alignleft\"><span class=\"vcard\" style=\"display: none;\"><span class=\"fn\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/?author=1\" title=\"Posts by nbd9e65bg\" rel=\"author\">nbd9e65bg<\/a><\/span><\/span><span class=\"updated\" style=\"display:none;\">2021-10-12T02:30:32+00:00<\/span><span>October 12th, 2021<\/span><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span>Categories: <a href=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/?cat=31\" rel=\"category\">In the News<\/a><span class=\"fusion-inline-sep\">|<\/span><span class=\"fusion-comments\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/?p=3011#respond\">0 Comments<\/a><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-alignright\"><a class=\"fusion-read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/?p=3011\" aria-label=\"More on Buffalo group wants park built over Rt. 33\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/article>\n<\/div><div class=\"pagination clearfix\"><span class=\"current\">1<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F3098&#038;paged=2\" class=\"inactive\">2<\/a><a class=\"pagination-next\" rel=\"next\" href=\"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fposts%2F3098&#038;paged=2\"><span class=\"page-text\">Next<\/span><span class=\"page-next\"><\/span><\/a><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-1{width:100% !important;margin-top : 10px;margin-bottom : 10px;}.fusion-builder-column-1 > .fusion-column-wrapper {padding-top : 0px !important;padding-right : 26px !important;margin-right : 1.92%;padding-bottom : 0px !important;padding-left : 54px !important;margin-left : 0%;}@media only screen and (max-width:1024px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-1{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-1 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-1{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-1 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 1.92%;margin-left : 1.92%;}}<\/style><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-flex-container.fusion-builder-row-2{ padding-top : 0px;margin-top : 0px;padding-right : 0px;padding-bottom : 0px;margin-bottom : 0px;padding-left : 0px;}<\/style><\/header><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buffalo group wants park built over Rt. 33 By: Hannah Buehler 11:56 PM, Aug 8, 2015 \u00a0 \u00a0 BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) \u2013 Buffalo neighbors living along Humboldt Parkway have been fighting for years to restore their community to the grandeur it once was. Saturday, the Restore Our Community group called on the City of Buffalo to build a parkway over the Kensington Expressway, connecting the Humboldt Parkway Community to the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus. Advocates say the route used to be tree-lined and beautiful until the construction of the Kensington Expressway over 60 years ago. 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