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Re: NY congressman Higgins writes Amtrak's Moorman in support of reopening Buffalo Central Terminal |
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Posted by NIMBYkiller on Tue Mar 14 15:41:55 2017, in response to NY congressman Higgins writes Amtrak's Moorman in support of reopening Buffalo Central Terminal, posted by Olog-hai on Sun Mar 12 22:56:47 2017. Buffalo Central Terminal was a mistake from the moment it was built. I get that a lot of terminals were built in areas that at the time were far outside the currently developed area, but did people really believe Buffalo was going to develop that far out? This station is wildly inconvenient to a downtown that will never spread as far out as Broadway-Fillmore. One of the key advantages to the train over the plane is that it brings you right to downtown. This mistake of a station, as beautiful and historic as it is, makes taking the train as convenient as flying, and by that I mean not convenient at all. Depew is even worse. At best, I could see a station right there at the junction just off Exit 5 where at least all 3 services (Maple Leaf, Empire, and LSL) could stop close to downtown, but even that is a bit outside, but at least it's an area where one could reasonably expect downtown to expand to if Buffalo were to ever bounce back. |
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