“The City of Buffalo has missed out on a big opportunity to enhance urban bike connectivity,” Newell Nussbaumer writes for Buffalo Rising. “A huge section of Delaware Avenue recently underwent a mill and overlay, leaving an awesome opportunity on the table for traffic calming and bike lanes. Instead, all of the turning lanes were put back where they were, essentially leaving this portion of Delaware bike-ped unfriendly, which is how it will most likely remain for at least another decade.” “The reason that this is so unfortunate is because this stretch of Delaware extends all the way from Kenmore Village (already traffic calmed) to the S-Curves (with connecting bike lanes). This could have been a prime corridor for cyclists to get from Kenmore to Delaware Park!” “When I first saw the roadwork underway, I thought to myself, ‘Complete Streets, here we come.’ Unfortunately that was not the case. I called up a friend who was privy to the initiative and asked why there were no bike lanes. He told me, ‘It’s a NYSDOT project. They would never sacrifice vehicle level of service. I’m pretty sure it was left out of the Bike Master Plan as well because of that challenge.'” “What a bummer.”
