While state officials will be releasing its proposals for the future of the Scajaquada Expressway Wednesday night, the Partnership for the Public Good has come out with its plans for the roadway.
The plan looks to turn the expressway into a relatively slow-speed parkway. The PPG would create that parkway more in the spirit of Frederick Law Olmsted and the parks he designed.
"If we all had the prescience to see what these expressways had done to our cities I don't think we ever would have built them," said Justin Booth, the report's co-author.
"We've seen places such as Milwaukee, New York City, San Francisco, as close by as Niagara Falls and Rochester, begin to remove their expressways."
Booth says legacy infrastructure projects have to be re-studied as they wear out and decisions made on what would replace them or simply duplicate them.
Tonight's meeting is at 7 p.m. in Buffalo State's Bulger Communications Center.
