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As Washington, DC talks about spending vast sums of money on transportation, local mass transit supporters see that fresh cash as a way to pay for extensions of the Metro Rail into Amherst, Buffalo s East Side and the southtowns.
Engineering drawings for the rail extension deep into Amherst are in the works and a very short extension in downtown Buffalo, curving around KeyBank Center to the old DL&W terminal station, is well underway. Paying for their construction might be where the Washington struggle comes in.
During the quarterly meeting of Citizens for Regional Transit Thursday evening, Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority Surface Transportation Director Thomas George said there will be lots of fighting for transit cash.
Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority
President Joe Biden used to commute daily on Amtrak between his home in Wilmington, DE and Washington, DC when he was in the U.S. Senate. During those days, he was known as Amtrak Joe. For members of the local Citizens for Regional Transit, that is an indication he might be willing to put up the federal dollars to turn the proposed Amherst extension of the Metro Rail into concrete and steel.
CRT dates back to the days when building the Metro Rail wasn’t quite underway and has long been pushing extensions, like the current extension into Amherst. That is now in engineering design, which is paid for.