Following a holiday season shutdown, work is re-starting on the Gateway project at the Peace Bridge.
When done, there will be a new network of ramps connecting the bridge and the Niagara Thruway and city streets and a road through Front Park will be gone.
"The pedestrian bridge and the bike path complete by the summer time," Empire State Development Regional President Sam Hoyt announced on Tuesday.
"The complicated part of that project is done, erecting the bridge itself. The bridge has been installed. We need to lay the rest of the path. And, that should be May or early June."
That's the bow bridge over the Thruway almost under the Peace Bridge. The project is supposed to ease traffic and cut air pollution but that may be increasing right now because a pilot project to ease pollution by pre-clearing truck traffic in Fort Erie has ended and trucks are now clearing on the Buffalo end. Only with approval from Ottawa and Washington will pre-clearance start permanently, leaving less truck idling on the Buffalo plaza.
