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$102 Million Awarded to NFTA for Bus Rapid Transit Line
The Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority will receive a $102 million grant from the United States Department of Transportation to design and construct a low or no emission Bus Rapid Transit line. The project, which will improve safety, mobility, and connectivity including walkability, bike ability, and enhance affordable transportation along Bailey Avenue in City of Buffalo.
Bailey Avenue runs through Buffalo’s East Side and is nearly the entire length of the eastern edge of the City of Buffalo, cutting through and separating the following neighborhoods: Kensington-Bailey, Kenfield, Schiller Park, Genesee-Moselle, Lovejoy, Kaisertown, Seneca Babcock, and Hopkins-Tifft.
Bailey Avenue currently presents significant barriers to access for the community with high motor vehicle traffic paired with limited provisions for people walking, bicycling, or taking transit in the corridor. Vehicular traffic has come at the expense of the local experience, which suffers from cars speeding by, unmanaged turning, multi-purpose lanes, and a dangerous experience when trying to cross.
Funding will support projects that includes:
- Roadway retrofitting (bus lanes, mobility hubs, bike rakes, curbs, sidewalks, accessible curb ramps, crosswalks, etc.);
- Purchasing low or no-emission vehicles and related infrastructure; and
- Transit—oriented development planning, community outreach and engagement, and an Equity and Inclusion Plan.
The East Side of Buffalo has been a focus with a $1 billion transportation investment on the Kensington Expressway – a project that envisions reconnecting the east-west neighborhoods across the depressed section of the Kensington Expressway corridor on the East Side, while re-establishing the green space originally provided by Humboldt Parkway, without compromising an important regional transportation link that the Expressway provides.
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