The New York State Department of Transportation is starting from the ground up on a project to possibly reconnect the part of Buffalo’s East Side currently divided by the Kensington Expressway.
In an announcement made Wednesday afternoon, Richard Fontana, special assistant at the state DOT, said the agency will conduct a full environmental impact statement on a project on Route 33.
That full EIS will involve several community meetings set to kick off in October, Fontana said during a press conference at the agency’s regional office in Buffalo.
The DOT will then take public input and