For months, the East Side Collaborative Partnership has been analyzing the state Department of Transportation’s plan to build a 3/4-mile tunnel and cap project between Dodge and Sidney streets on the Kensington Expressway.
Henry-Louis Taylor Jr., who directs UB’s Center for Urban Studies, is urging lawmakers to change course on the Kensington Expressway project.
The partnership will hold a town hall meeting about the project from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday at the Frank E. Merriweather Library, 1324 Jefferson Ave., and its members have called on state lawmakers or their representatives to respond to their concerns about the plan, which would use state money and $55 million in federal transportation aid announced last April from $1 billion set aside to address the harm done by urban highways across the U.S.
The East Side Parkways Coalition and Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy oppose the DOT plan. Both advocate instead that a section of Route 33 be filled as part of a larger plan to reconnect Martin Luther King Jr. and Delaware parks and improve surrounding neighborhoods.
Those groups and other critics want to restore the nearly 2-mile parkway designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, and have called for an agency other than the state DOT to develop broader goals that…
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