After decades of lamentation about the loss of Rochester’s grand Claude Bragdon rail station in 1965 and about its uninspiring replacement, a new inter-modal rail/bus station will soon be under construction downtown. Read more about it at Rochester YNN […]
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Every week, Panel of Business Interests member Sam Schwartz Engineering shares with Empire State Future’s readers updates on New York City, State and National transportation issues. Featured New Transportation Bill, Same Old Funding Questions Politico New York Gridlock Sam […]
continue readingThe Buffalo News reports on the remarkable surge of development projects in the works along the city’s Metrorail line. Often lampooned as the “train to nowhere,” the future is looking up for the light rail system and the areas it […]
continue readingAppeals by gas companies and landowners to the state’s ruling that the Towns of Dryden and Middlefield can ban “fracking” are being heard in state court. The case is a huge test of “home rule” in New York State. Read […]
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by Evan Lowenstein The word “hamlet” likely paints a picture for you of a small, cozy collection of tidy older houses and buildings at a country crossroads. Indeed, we are blessed with many such hamlets across New York State. Yet […]
continue reading(March 19, 2013) In New York City, walking is a way of life. Unfortunately, it is more dangerous than it has to be when motorists speed. Yesterday, the New York City Department of Transportation released data indicating that speed remains […]
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Continuing a Buffalo trend, another church building is to be converted into residential spaces. The conversion of the North Buffalo Plymouth United Church of Christ into six apartments is the fourth such conversion in Buffalo in the past three years. […]
continue readingCiting continued concerns about the environmental and health effects of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, 95 New York State Assembly members voted to extend moratorium on fracking for two years and calls on SUNY to conduct a comprehensive health and […]
continue reading Every week, Panel of Business Interests member Sam Schwartz Engineering shares with Empire State Future’s readers updates on New York City, State and National transportation issues. Featured Obama Fleshes Out Plans for Infrastructure Projects The New York Times New […]
continue readingWith a precious $500,000 federal Partnership for Sustainable Communities grant (only 27 were awarded nationwide in 2012, and this the only one in New York), the City of Binghamton is launching Binghamton Blueprint, an 18-month, citizen-driven comprehensive plan update process. […]
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