Our Board member Bradley Bethel contributed a guest article about Metro Rail expansion in Buffalo Rising magazine, which you can find here.

This is the October 2022 Citizens for Regional Transit newsletter.

September 10, 2022 at Amherst Street Station, Buffalo, NY.

Remembrance Ceremony

In honor of Elizabeth “Betsy” Giles

Please join us for a remembrance ceremony in honor of recently deceased board member Elizabeth “Betsy” Giles on Saturday, September 10, 2022 at the Amherst Street Metro Rail
Station (street level near the Amherst Street entrance) at 10am.

Betsy was a tireless transit advocate dedicating many hours advocating for public transit and for Buffalo’s East Side. She represented Citizens for Regional Transit at the NFTA’s Citizens Advisory Committee for many years. A plaque and new bench at the station she used most will be unveiled. Please join us.

The ceremony will also be streamed via Microsoft TEAMS.

Click here to register to view the ceremony on Teams.

Meeting ID: 250 178 059 666 
Passcode: ASwHqW

To get Teams, click this link to download Microsoft Teams.

This is the Citizens for Regional Transit Newsletter, Special Edition for August 2022.

Here are comments we submitted to the New York State Department of Transportation on the potential restoration of Humboldt Parkway, undoing damage by urban renewal in the 1950s and 1960s.

This is the July 2022 Citizens for Regional Transit newsletter.

Citizens for Regional Transit offered comments on the CLPCA Draft Scoping Plan. These can be downloaded below.

Please join CRT at the Juneteenth Festival on Saturday, June 18th and Sunday, June 19th at MLK Park. Our table will be set up in the Community Resources Tent (location 151-152) next to the Parade Reviewing Stand across from the wading pool on Fillmore Avenue.

Buffalo's Juneteenth Festival is one of the largest in the nation. Let's show the nation the best of Buffalo.

CRT Tent location: https://goo.gl/maps/QXm2n2NYTEcK1gMb8

Citizens for Regional Transit submitted comments to the Greater Buffalo Niagara Regional Transportation Council (GBNRTC) on the Region Central Project.