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If successful, the lawsuit would force New York State to replace the Kensington Expressway with the original Humboldt Parkway and remove portions of the Scajaquada Expressway from Delaware Park.
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A public meeting on the Kensington Expressway project packed the library's auditorium full of supporters and opposition voices of NYSDOT's plan.
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After pouring over 1,310 public comments related to the Kensington Expressway project, Citizen Researchers dispute the numbers put forth by the New York State Department of Transportation.
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The state department of transportation was in Buffalo Wednesday for another public hearing on the construction of the Humboldt Parkway section of the Kensington Expressway.
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As the Kensington Expressway project hits the environmental assessment phase, advocacy groups would still like a say.
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The New York State Department of Transportation shared plans Monday to expand the Kensington Expressway project by 600 feet to include neighboring side streets on the east side of Buffalo. The DOT plans to hold two public information meetings on Tuesday about the project.
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More detailed plans have yet to be put in place, but local government and community leaders were celebrating Friday the $1 billion set aside in the New York State budget to redesign the Kensington Expressway. Leaders referred to it as a “transformational” investment that would reconnect a neighborhood severed by the highway for more than 60 years.
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State Assembly Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes and state Sen. Tim Kennedy are expected to announce $1 billion in funding at a press conference Friday afternoon at the Buffalo Museum of Science.
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As part of her budget for fiscal year 2023, Gov. Kathy Hochul is putting money towards reconnecting neighborhoods across the state which have been split by highways. This includes the Kensington Expressway in Buffalo. Given the history of the expressway, there is doubt a project could help the neighborhoods the expressway has most harmed.
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Supporters of reconnecting the Humboldt Parkway neighborhood by reworking the Kensington Expressway would bring not only social and economic justice to the severed neighborhood, but also health benefits.