By Green Options Buffalo:
A balanced transportation system that includes Complete Green Streets can bolster economic growth and stability by providing accessible and efficient connections between residences, schools, parks, public transportation, offices, and retail destinations. Complete Streets can reduce transportation costs and travel time while increasing property values and job growth. Whether it’s in response to our obesity epidemic, environmental sustainability or because it makes good fiscal sense – we must work collaboratively to ensure our roadways are accommodating all users.
To this end, the University’s at Buffalo’s professor Hiro Hata has engaged the students in his design studio to work collaboratively with Buffalo’s Complete Streets Coalition, the City of Buffalo and the community to engage the three distinct neighborhoods of Niagara Street to re-envision it as a Complete Green Street.
This Friday, May 6th from 10:00am – noon at Rich Renaissance Center (1 Robert Rich Way) the students of the design studio will unveil their work over the past semester and invite the community to view how they propose, through stakeholder input, to transform Niagara Street by strengthen its connectivity for all modes while enhancing public access to the water, adding green infrastructure and putting people first.
Please join us!