A public meeting will be held this week regarding the negative health effects of the Peace Bridge. The meeting takes place this Wednesday, September 12th from 7 to 9 pm and the Lafayette Presbyterian Church (875 Elmwood Avenue). Those who live in the Elmwood Village should be aware that they are essentially breathing the same polluted and dangerous air as those who live directly adjacent to the bridge. This issue is not just concentrated to one area of Buffalo, it is a problem far and wide.
Now for some quick and startling facts about the Peace Bridge and the Plaza. There are 5,000 trucks and 20,000 cars that pass through the west side every day as a result of bridge traffic. Nearly 45% of the west side households reported at least one case of chronic respiratory illness or asthma, which is nearly four times the national average. The NYS Department Health's Cancer Registry indicates elevated levels of both lung and bronchus cancers for the west side.
The meeting is presented by the Buffalo West Side Environmental Defense Fund, visit the Move the Plaza website for more information.
stop the obstructionist insanity
Thank you, people think that added trucks equal added polution, not true. If you have a hundred trucks sitting idle for 15 minutes, compared to a hundred and fifety sitting idle for 5 minutes, that's a net loss in polution, not a gain.
PROGRESS! YEAH! PROGRESS! I WANT A BIGGER DUTY FREE AND ALL THE GREAT STUFF IT'S GOING TO BRING ME! PROGRESS!
.......and that's exactly what this is about.
Please explain the benefit of hosting a diesel truck plaza. My research has shown there is NO economic benefit to the community while there is a huge cost to health and quality of life. Truck traffic does not equal progress, trucks contribute nothing but pollution as they pass through our neighborhoods spewing filth into our air.
Money's the benefit, you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure that out. I'm pretty sure you've even said the same thing?
So you think an expanded plaza will encourage business growth to such a degree that money may not grow on trees, but it's going to be apparent to all those opposed how great it is to have an expanded plaza? I'm figuring that's the monetary benefit you're referring to? Because I don't think it's going to have that great of an impact... I'll take the plaza and the bridge as it is to save a neighborhood. Residents make neighborhoods, they pay taxes, they raise their children here and send them to school here. I'll cater to a resident and their neighborhood no matter which side of town it's on any day of the week.
Money for who? the PBA? out of state trucking interests that contribute nothing to WNY or Buffalo? Truck Plaza's do not generate wealth or business in the host community. In fact truck plaza's drive away residents, lower property values, and in turn deprive the city government of tax recipts.
I never took you as the type to not respond to a response. Especially when the response strongly disagreed with what you said.
I believe it's called having a life. But back to your original question. It's all about truck toll money. The more trucks they can push through the more money they can rake in. And while we're J'ing each other off over this Detroit is building a signature bridge. Look at the article below on the economic impact their bridge is going to have.
"A study released by the Center for Automotive Research found that the Detroit project will create approximately 12,000 jobs per year during the 4-year construction phase and another 8,000 permanent jobs will be created in the vicinity of the new bridge and the greater region as a result of new economic activity."
Let's allow the 'prospect' of an additional crossing at Detroit/Windsor drive our decision process on this.