In a scene and scenario reminiscent for other recent “Kensington Expressway” listening and learning sessions, the overwhelming support leaned towards reverting significant portions of the busy highway back into its original Frederick Law Olmsted-designed parkway.
Much like earlier sessions in Buffalo and Cheektowaga, those in attendance at Thursday night’s DOT-sponsored session at the Amherst Senior Center said, if they had their druthers, they would support the growing grassroots effort to bring back the Olmsted design to the Kensington.
Thursday’s session was one of several scheduled by the DOT as a prelude to a formal environmental impact statement that could be underway by later this year…