{"id":2977,"date":"2021-10-12T01:06:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T01:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2021-10-12T02:16:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T02:16:49","slug":"nations-top-transportation-official-sees-benefit-of-revival-of-humboldt-parkway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/?p=2977","title":{"rendered":"Nation\u2019s top transportation official sees benefit of revival of Humboldt Parkway"},"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: 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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-2 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-2\"><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-2{width:100% !important;margin-top : 10px;margin-bottom : 10px;}.fusion-builder-column-2 > .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-2{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-2 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 0%;margin-left : 0%;}}@media only screen and (max-width:640px) {.fusion-body .fusion-builder-column-2{width:100% !important;order : 0;}.fusion-builder-column-2 > .fusion-column-wrapper {margin-right : 0%;margin-left : 0%;}}<\/style><\/div><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">.fusion-body .fusion-flex-container.fusion-builder-row-3{ padding-top : 0px;margin-top : 0px;padding-right : 3%;padding-bottom : 0px;margin-bottom : 0px;padding-left : 0%;}<\/style><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nation\u2019s top transportation official sees benefit of revival of Humboldt Parkway &nbsp; http:\/\/www.buffalonews.com\/city-region\/east-side\/nations-top-transportation-official-sees-benefit-of-revival-of-humboldt-parkway-20160521 By Mark Sommer | News Staff Reporter on May 21, 2016 \u2013 8:47 PM, updated May 21, 2016 at 11:08 PM 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 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 [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3026,"href":"https:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions\/3026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roccbuffalo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}