Changes On Main Street

This is a plan? Has anybody done a cost/benefit analysis? How about a marketing survey? AND! Which crooked politician gets the pay-off?

Are you kidding me??? They'll be doing studies on this thing for the next decade at least, like for the 2nd bridge to Canada. Too many pay offs for it to happen, same same the bridge.

This must be the big joke of the day.Shut the door after the horse is gone.The people have all gone to the malls and nobody left to shop downtown.How many years have we heard this story about opening main st.You should CLEAN up main st frist.

Whoopie!
Drug Dealers and gang abngers will have a new thor`ough-fare.
Earth to Buffalo..
There IS NOTHING LEFT downtown.
The heyday of department stores left 35 years ago and nothing will bring it back.
It's my understanding Buffalo modeled its downtown light rail on a Baltimore Md. format a decade old at the time which Baltimore had scrapped.
You even moved the Taste of Buffalo and the St. Patricks Day parade onto Deleware after the boarded up buildings fronting main became too depressing.
Main street 'should have' been the medical corridor instead of it winding up 2-3 blocks east.
When do we convert the underground section into the long awaited mushroom farm?

Gteat move...now, there can be deserted stores and sidewalks with people driving by. What possible difference can having traffic make? You won't be able to park any closer, nothing will change, just another waste of our money.

take out 75% of all the traffic lights on main street and people will use it more.

or at least change it so that you don't have to stop at every single light!

What's next, a subway to nowhere? Oh wait...

Oh sure, now that all the businesses are gone, lets open it up to cars again. Smart, NOT!

This city is a dump. You can't cure stupid!

Why now? All the businesses are gone. No one wants to go downtown anymore, it is not safe. The city of Buffalo is a dump.

I think it's a good idea. It feels like an eternity but I think the city is slowy turing around.

If you who do not like Buffalo would move away- maybe Buffalo would be a great place to live. What's wrong with theplan- WHY NOT????

I hope this will help the City of Buffalo, but I'm afraid this will be too little too late. They never should have cut traffic there to begin with. So many mistakes were made with this whole subway (non)system.

Big Deal.... Now people can drive past nothing and there is no room to allow parking. So be sure a wave at the office buildings as you drive by.....

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They should have spent the 1.6 million on the Studio Arena . Or for that matter a broom . With proper incentive the pedestrian mall could have worked . With or without cars there is no reason to go to the 700 block of Main street. That is the problem.

Amazed wrote:

If you who do not like Buffalo would move away- maybe Buffalo would be a great place to live. What's wrong with theplan- WHY NOT????

WHY NOT? Because (1) there's no business' there,(2) you wouldn't be able to park any closer to them if there were, so the question should be, WHY?

Making room for vehicle traffic will do nothing to bring stores back to Main Street. This is as much a waste of money as the original project that caused this problem.

well as someone who actually GOES downtown i can tell you that there are on the 700 block of main:

1. luxury apartment complex
2. gourmet chocolate bar (forgot the name of it)
3. three updated storefronts at full occupancy (copy store/other copy store/hair salon/previously mentioned chocolate bar

doing this phase of the project is a start to taking care of the rest of main street. it will not solve downtown's problems but creating easy accessibility will enhance storefront viability. its only a small piece of what is needed to fix downtown.