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Parkside residents raise traffic safety issues

Though the solutions may be costly, neighborhood residents want something done about the dangerous traffic conditions around the intersection of Parkside and Florence.City Hall says 23,000 cars go through the intersection each day, racing off the Scajaquada or swerving around the curve which once took trolley cars between Parkside and Main Street.

There is a new traffic study looking at what to do about the speeding, the accidents and the near-misses at the corner. That study has proposals running into the hundreds of thousands of dollars to make it safer.

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Parkside Community Association meeting

It was the topic Tuesday night in Saint Mary's School for the Deaf during an event sponsored by the Parkside Community Association.  

"It's a very dangerous intersection," said  Traffic Committee Chairman Richard Wolf.   "It's been labeled as the third-most dangerous intersection in the city.  There have been numerous accidents with severe property damage in the neighborhood across lawns, shrubbery. One house, a brick house, was totally damaged and was knocked off its foundation." 

Credit WBFO News photo by Mike Desmond
Community Association Traffic Committee Chairman Richard Wolf & City Public Works Commissioner Steven Stepniak

Public Works Commissioner Steven Stepniak says some changes might be made by spring.

Mike Desmond is one of Western New York’s most experienced reporters, having spent nearly a half-century covering the region for newspapers, television stations and public radio. He has been with WBFO and its predecessor, WNED-AM, since 1988. As a reporter for WBFO, he has covered literally thousands of stories involving education, science, business, the environment and many other issues. Mike has been a long-time theater reviewer for a variety of publications and was formerly a part-time reporter for The New York Times.