#buffalo highways

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Cheers greet Cuomo on goal of reviving Humboldt Parkway area

Governor Cuomo came to the Buffalo Museum of Science to announce local spending by the state for the 2016 - 2017 budget. His biggest announcement was a $6M study to cap a portion of the Kensington Expressway, the highway that severed the East Side from downtown and is the primary cause for its dubious economic decline. Urbanists have been calling for this and other highway improvements for some time now.

The project would partially restore a parkway designed by Olmsted, yet the cost of the project could turn out to be as much as $500M. However, if this is successful it could create a $1B economic impact on Buffalo in a neighborhood that is struggling with poverty. In addition, the state is funding a downgrade of the Scajaquada Expressway into a boulevard which will make Delaware Park more unified again. In Niagara Falls the governor is removing a stretch of the Niagara Expressway and investing $4.5M into Niagara Falls State Park further improving the attractiveness on the American side.

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Cuomo announces $40 million plan to remove Robert Moses

Highway along the waterfront of Western New York has been a common complaint since they were built choking off communities like Riverside and Black Rock blocked by the Niagara Expressway from the river that made them central destinations in the Buffalo community. The Skyway, which towers over downtown Buffalo, cuts too close to Lake Erie.

Luckily, the state is removing a two mile stretch of the waterfront-blocking-highway Robert Moses Parkway near Niagara Falls. The plan seems to be upgraded from a one-mile initial plan under the Buffalo billion plan $40M is going to help divert traffic back into the struggling American city that sits along a global natural attraction.