This is the January 2023 Citizens for Regional Transit newsletter.

Citizens for Regional Transit offered comments on the proposed 2023-24 budget for the NFTA. Click the link below to read them.

Tell Governor Hochul to fill in the Kensington Expressway and reconnect the park system as originally envisioned in the Olmsted plan.

https://tinyurl.com/GovHochul

At our October 2022 Public Meeting, our treasurer Jim Gordon presented a proposal to restore the famed Olmstead-designed Humboldt Parkway, which is currently marred by the NY33 expressway. This is a video version of this presentation.

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.