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CITIZENS FOR REGIONAL TRANSIT VOL. #14 ISSUE #8 OCT., 2012

Back to the future....?

The Congress for NewUrbanism (CNU) is holding aretreat at Chautauqua Institution,and CRT will be there!

Why?

Because the CNU charteradvocates for a communitydesigned for access by pedestrianand public transit.

When the CNU visits Buffaloon 2014, they will see Buffaloswonderful downtown buildings,built so that the population had easyaccess to the whole city-- viastreetcars and passenger rail.

CNU may visit cohesiveneighborhoods, such as Allentownand Hertel and Hamlin Park, whichwere built with the expectation thatresidents could walk or take astreetcar for their daily needs.

Perhaps they may look atoutlying towns, such as Hamburgor Orchard Park or Williamsville,sprouted where the commuter railline offered development.

Metro Buffalo was built aroundtransit.

Metro Buffalo needs to restoretransit.

CNU, we welcome you!

CRT News

CRT Quarterly Meeting

Wednesday,

October 17, 2012

12:00-1:00 pm

Planning for Transit

Corridors

Darren Kempner, NFTA Manager of Grants

Mr. Kempner works with federal, state and local government officialsand private-sector partners to formulate and manage projects to meet NFTAgoals and grantor requirements. He previously served as Erie CountysDeputy Commissioner for Environment and Planning.

CitizensforRegional Transit meets at:

237 Main Street at Seneca Street, Buffalo, NY

Follow signs, to the second floor Mezzanineconference room

CRT meetings are free and open to

the public

Be a friend, check out CRT on Facebook!and visit our website, citizenstransit.org

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Calendar

Oct. 15, 6-8 pm

WNY Sustainability public

meeting, Millennium Hotel, 2040Walden Ave., Cheektowaga

Oct. 17, 12-1 pm

CRT quarterly meeting,237 Main St., Buffalo

Analysis of Transit Corridorswith Darren Kempner, NFTA

Oct. 28, 3-5:30 pm

VOICE-Buffalo and NOAH

public meetings. VOICE meets atSt. Martin de Porres RC Church,

555 Northampton St., Buffalo

Nov. 7, 9:30 am

Planning & Coordinating

Committee of GBNRTC,

Erie Co. Public Works,

95 Franklin St., Buffalo

Jan. 16, 12-1 pm

CRT Annual Meeting, 237 MainSt., Buffalo

Citizens Regional Transit Corporation

617 Main Street

Buffalo, NY 14203

return service requested

...regional Metro news

Concerning the Cars SharingMain Streetproject in Buffalo, NY,see excellent writeup in Investigative

Post...http://

www.investigativepost.org/2012/10/04/cars-main-street-program-criticized/

Next public workshops of theWNY Regional Sustainability Planare scheduled for October, inCheektowaga, Jamestown, Sanbornand Cuba, NY.

See www.sustainable-ny.com.

Will the Plan include light railextension as a strategy to fulfill Gov.Cuomos Cleaner, GreenerCommunities Program ?

The Citizens AdvisoryCommittee (CAC) organized by theNFTA met in late September. CRTsrepresentative is Elizabeth Giles, whohas chosen to travel entirely by publictransit. She reported that the firstmeeting was taken up by organi-zational needs, and expects that the

next monthly meeting will beginwork on items of substance.

VOICE-Buffalo will advocatefor increased public transit fundingfrom NYS legislators at its publicmeeting, Oct. 28. NOAH will call on

Niagara County to contribute fundingforNFTA Metro services.

Several members of the CRTBoard will attend the Congress for

New Urbanism retreat, Oct. 12-14.While there, President Gifford will

present the work of CRT and urgeattendees to promote public transit asa critical element in urban planning.

Negotiations between the

University of Buffalo and the NFTAare at an impasse, so UB students donot have access to a Metro pass thissemester. Other local colleges whichcontinue their student pass programsare: Buffalo State, Erie CommunityCollege, Canisius, Bryant &Stratton. Medaille provides Metro

passes at full cost to students whorequest them.

Surely there is a way for UB tosolve this situation. Metro passeswork well for students who live nearthe Metro Rail stations, as well as foracademic travel between the MainStreet and downtown campuses.

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