BUFFALO, N.Y. — A telephone book-thick draft environmental impact statement focusing on the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority’s seven-mile-long expansion into Amherst has been completed and will be the subject of a pair of back-to-back public hearings next month.
The draft EIS is one of many steps the NFTA must undertake before it can seek state and federal funds for the proposed $1 billion project, which, if undertaken would be the largest public sector-backed infrastructure development in the region’s history.
Public hearings are set for 5 p.m., Feb. 25 at Sweet Home Middle School, 4150 Maple Road in Amherst and 1 p.m., Feb. 26 in the Screening Room inside the Boulevard Mall. Copies of the draft EIS are available for review at the NFTA headquarters on Ellicott Street in downtown Buffalo as well as the Buffalo and Erie County Central Library, also in downtown, the John James Audubon Parkway library branch in Amherst, Town of Tonawanda Town Hall on Delaware Avenue and Amherst Town Hall. You can read the full story on Buffalo Business First's website.