Levy said input from consultants and the community ultimately will be used to help determine what will happen along the Lake Erie shoreline. He reiterated the long-held notion that Buffalo’s Inner and Outer harbors need to be connected – right now, walking or driving from one to the other is like navigating a maze – but spoke with finality about the prospect of tearing down a well-known structure that, by its presence, serves as a barrier between the two.
The Skyway, he said, will remain standing: Plans are being put in place to work around it, and once Canal Side is built, it will be difficult – if not impossible – to tear it down with the development underneath it.
“It’s not coming down,” Levy said. “It’s just reality. We just have to move on.”
That would be Jordan Levy, Chairman of the Erie Canal Harbor Development Corp. basically giving up on getting rid of The Skyway. It would appear that the DOT and Higgins won. We’re stuck with a useless highway that carries less traffic than Main Street in Williamsville. You know, I am really, and I mean REALLY getting sick of the half-assed short sighted BS that get played up as progress in Buffalo. This is just STUPID. What is Buffalo doing to make someone like me want to move back? This sure as hell is not the way to do that! UGH!!!
-Steve
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Sounds like hyperbole or defeatism. I say the guys needs to go. There is no real argument that can be made to keep the skyway.
Cost: It is cheaper to tear it down than to renovate it. Then you still need to maintain it.
Traffic: It carries less traffic than many city and suburban streets
Aesthetics: It is ugly
People have to start saying and repeating that 100% of Buffalo’s waterfront is cut off by highways. It needs to be stated and constantly repeated that 50% of Buffalo’s parkway system was removed for highways. It needs to be stated and repeated often that Buffalo’s main city park has been cut in half to accommodate highways. The more it is stated the more it will sink into the local psyche.
Why is a route 5 expressway necessary in Buffalo but not in Lackawanna or Hamburg? Defeatist attitudes are what got Buffalo where it is now. If there is anything we have learned from Bush is that the more you repeat something the more people will follow you. We need to repeat the idea that the Skyway has to be removed more times than the defeatist pro highway group
– Dave
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