Totally agree with you. Projects are not done in the community's best interest. They are done in the best interest of the connected politicians and developers at our expense.
Cost estimates favor downtown train station over Central Terminal
http://buffalonews.com/2017/03/21/do...ns-upper-hand/Central Terminal supporters made up the majority of an overflow crowd at Tuesday's public meeting on where to put a new Buffalo train station.
Many didn't like what they heard.
The cost of putting the station at the East Side landmark was estimated at between $68 million and $149 million, compared to between $34 million and $86 million to put a station downtown, according to an engineering consultant hired by the state Department of Transportation.
The range of costs was for accommodating current train service; service also including long-distance trains; adding local buses; and also adding inter-city carriers. Each came with its own engineering and architectural challenges.
But the funny part is that from both preferred locations trains can't head west. There's no tracks. I guess that it should come as a surprise to no one that this comedy of errors was overseen by a professor from UB.
At least from the terminal I see tracks or track beds that might be able to be reused.
Think if you are a developer and have an idea where tracks could be built if the station was downtown. You could go and buy up a lot of run down homes where tracks could go. CHA CHING!!!!
If you follow the tracks up to Broadway to the CSX Transportation Frontier Yard a restaurant used to be there. I worked at the restaurant between the age of 14 to 18. I started off as a dishwasher, floor cleaner, soda machine reloader, up to potato peeler, then short order cook then dinner preparation for the following day. I made 1000's of eggs, burgers, sandwiches, 100's of pounds of home fries, salads and what ever was being served. I think they finally closed that part of the building down years ago.