Buffalo, N.Y. (WBEN) – The re-reimagining of the Kensington Expressway begins Tuesday night, as the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) is set to officially launch its public outreach for “Queen City Forward” with its first public listening session for the future of the project in Buffalo’s East Side neighborhood.
The open house-style listening session will be held Tuesday at the Schiller Park Senior Center, located at 2057 Genesee Street in Buffalo from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. It is the first of several public listening sessions planned for the coming weeks throughout Western New York to gather community input on the project, and give the public a voice in this beginning phase of the project.
“There’s a lot of people that this roadway impacts. There’s people that live along it, there’s people that drive it every day. We’re trying to find ways to hear from everybody,” said NYSDOT spokesperson Ryan Whalen in an interview with WBEN. “We will have people from the department ready to listen to your concerns, your thoughts, your ideas. We will have some boards up to sort of lead people along to things that they might be interested in, but in general, we want to keep this open, because we really want to hear from you…