When the New York State Department of Transportation could not reach a community consensus on the redesign of the Scajaquada Expressway, it asked a regional planning agency to step in.
Mounting voices against the project as now planned are calling for a more comprehensive study to consider other options and provide additional information before a final decision is made.
Now, it’s another big project that critics want the DOT to relinquish control over: the Kensington Expressway redesign.
The nearly $1 billion Kensington project has garnered little public support but has a lot of unanswered questions, critics say, adding that the expensive project is too important to the East Side and the entire city not to be as good a project as possible.
“Viewing this as a highway project … does not provide the comprehensive review necessary to determine how to best provide holistic transportation, community restoration and social justice remedies,” Beth Downing, the Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy’s interim executive director, wrote in October to the DOT.
So some want the Greater Buffalo Niagara Regional Transportation Council to do for the Kensington project what it did for the Scajaquada project: hold meetings with the public and stakeholders, gauge their…
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