By Eileen Buckley
Buffalo, NY – A Buffalo Common Council member is looking for consensus on how to create a new boulevard like roadway along the elevated section of Route 5 and the waterfront.
South District lawmaker Michael Kearns recently traveled to Toronto. Kearns was joined by two other lawmakers and members of the Buffalo Waterfront Coalition.
Kearns says they met with experts on how the East Gardner Expressway in Toronto was dismantled and reconnected to the waterfront. Kearns and the waterfront Coalition are trying to drum up support for a Route 5 boulevard.
But Congressman Brian Higgins says he does NOT support the creation of a boulevard-like highway along Route 5. Instead he supports the Outer Harbor development plan where Fuhrmann Boulevard would be turned into a new parkway.
Council member Kearns says now there is need for consensus on Route 5, the Skyway and Outer Harbor.
The Waterfront Coalition has collected more than 1,000 on-line signatures that calls on the Governor to tear down the elevated section of Route 5.
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