timvanman

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• Commented on North Park Church: What Might Have Been
  These plans would have been helpful a year ago to actually plan to develop the structure. Buffalonians need to make a list of buildings that are at risk for demolition and work to rehab them BEFORE they are an immediate...
• Commented on Another Main Street Missed Opportunity
  Projects like this take a very long time to go from dpw desk to laying asphalt. Proactive action by this regions citizens is much more constructive than criticism when a job is finished. Although I agree with you, my means...
• Commented on Bloomberg attempts to limit soda size to 16-ounces
  let them drink it if they please. There shouldn't be a ban on such trivial things. Bloomberg should busy himself with more pressing issues in NYC...
• Commented on Buffalo: A Smarter, Wealthier City
  as interesting as this data is, one must look at REGIONS not city propers. It will give everybody a much better understanding as to how to rank the regions. You are assuming the poor who leave the city are leaving...
• Commented on Delaware S-Curves: Downgrading the Scajaquada Expressway
  I would prefer a circle, calms traffic and keeps it moving even in the low traffic hours...
• Commented on Construction Watch: Colvin Estates
  When North Buffalo was built, it WAS the suburbs....
• Commented on Why to 'Not' Join Occupy Buffalo
  there are jobs here that employ aero engineers for 81,000. look up Moog. There is also an entire aero space cluster left over from the days the supersonic jet engine was developed here....
• Commented on Why to 'Not' Join Occupy Buffalo
  Brett- this is perfect. I know you'll return to buffalo and do great things (especially because you are a Canisius Grad). I am a civil engineering student who feels the same way....
• Commented on Why Join Occupy Buffalo?
  Did you major in something that would get you a job after, or something like communications? Why don't you get a masters to make yourself worth more? There are more productive things to do than live in Niagara Square....
• Commented on Buffalo Bank Transfer Day
  Well I've lost faith in "Buffalo First!"...
• Commented on Panaro's Expands In Allentown
  I love this place!!!...
• Commented on America's Economically Strongest Metro Areas
  People like risk, that's why they are still moving to bubble areas...
• Commented on Cars on Main Street: Unintended Consequences
  Venice: just replace roads with canals lol. I saw that article, I really liked it. I'm just finishing up a study abroad in France, i see that kind of thing everywhere. It costs tons of money to drive into London....
• Commented on Cars on Main Street: Unintended Consequences
  Gladys you've gone off the deep end. I was just in Amsterdam where cars and trams co-exist peacefully throughout the entire city. My family there tell me crashes happen occasionally, but not often. My father, who lived in Amsterdam during...
• Commented on How I Overcame My Prejudice Against Buffalo
  Awesome story, which grabbed the attention of many people who previously did not see too much in the city....
• Commented on Cars on Main Street: Who pays the bill?
  Awesome comment. Gladys of course the taxpayers pay for the project. ITS A STREET AND PUBLIC TRANSIT PUBLIC!!! KEY WORD!!! If you want the money to be spent wisely, then why don't you apply for a position at the NYSDOT?...
• Commented on Cars on Main Street? Let's Do it Right!
  Exactly Urban Cowboy. CRT are stepping into the game right before the bidding process starts, meaning that the studies have been ongoing for the past 6-8 years. If Gladys Gifford wanted to really influence the process, she should have had...
• Commented on Info about Buffalo's Centennial
  look up the book "Buffalo-Niagara Connections" by John W. Percy He have some good pictures from the event. and of course, the Historical Society...
• Commented on The (ugly) Face of Buffalo.
  JnnTO, The Peace Bridge neighborhood isn't very appealing to outsiders, that's for sure. It has its jewels- LaSalle Park, Buffalo Yacht Club, and West Side Rowing Club- but those are pretty isolated across the 190. Grant Street further up the...
• Commented on Cars on Main Street? Let's Do it Right!
  Evidence has suggested people will pay $10 for the parking space, go to the game, and leave after. Not many people take the train to extend their stay downtown after a game, they take it to their house/car. Extra stops...
• Commented on Cars on Main Street? Let's Do it Right!
  ARE YOU SERIOUS??? the fountain plaza station is .14 miles, 752 feet, 150 paces away. Anyone can walk that. Tell me why there are 6 stations over the span of a little more than a mile, when the distance from...
• Commented on A Complete Niagara Street
  The bike paths just end at Niagara. If they connect the northtowns to downtown that would be great...
• Commented on Plans for Aud Site, Canals and Market Hall Refined
  BUILD IT!!!!!!!!! YES!!...
• Commented on Medical Campus a Bright Spot Amid a Dark Job Market
  But those few cities are all rust belt cities, Cleveland, Baltimore, the the exception is the Research Triangle in Durham...
• Commented on Medical Campus a Bright Spot Amid a Dark Job Market
  http://www.buffalonews.com/city/communities/buffalo/article187712.ece second paragraph...
• Commented on Medical Campus a Bright Spot Amid a Dark Job Market
  Remember hospitals are being closed (Gates Circle and eventually Childrens) and relocating their services there...
• Commented on RiverFest Park: Phase 2
  I row out of the rowing club he's funding next door...
• Commented on St. Paul's Project to Renovate Two Downtown Buildings
  Affordable apartments with $1000/month rent?...
• Posted Chicago and Buffalo to Buffalo Rising Forums
  I'm going to Chicago for the weekend soon. Does anyone (cough steel cough) have any good sights to see that architecturally similar to Buffalo? Any good re-use projects, or new urban buildings? I know about State Street, Michigan Ave, and...
• Commented on Seneca Nation Welcomes Verizon Project
  Usually developers and companies take advantage of a region... not many people see an advantage to WNY because we shoot ourselves in the foot so often. Yes we have cheap power, but we also have a coal plant on the...