BUFFALO — The New York State Department of Transportation has awarded a contract to design and build a new intermodal transportation facility, replacing Amtrak’s 66-year-old station on the same site.
The $27.7-million project will demolish the current station, replacing it with a temporary structure while the new facility is built. Hohl Industries and Scrufari Construction received the contract for the brick, three-story building. Construction should begin this winter, with completion projected for fall 2020.
The new building will be more than double the size of the current structure, and will offer light rail and bus connnections. It will replace the current low-level platforms with train-level platforms for easier boarding, according to a New York DOT press release.
Stupidly they didnt restore the Buffalo Union Terminal, a real landmark of the city.
I’m still curious if the Lake Shore will call at this station. It is possible to serve it using the Buffalo Belt but will add time to the schedule. I don’t see the sense in maintaining two stations in the Buffalo area. @ Anna. Depew now has a Tim Horton’s near by. Somewhat an improvement and a short walk away through an adjacent parking lot and across Broadway.
I hope that new station, I believe its at Depew area of Buffalo will have a decent attractive restaurant and a small souvenir shopping store. I had to wait over six hours to change my trains there where it did not had any facilities.. Then I had to walk up on Dick Road by walking underneath by viewing the most disgusting underpass I ever experienced with endless manure droppings from sea gulls that grossly deterred me from eating at any restaurant further up north at a few blocks away. The other priority is to ensure that Dick Road underpass eliminates its disgusting and repulsive vision of manure droppings then Buffalo will be an improved vision city.
A few years ago, I walked with my bag from a hotel at the airport to the Depew AMTRAK station. The walk was not that bad.
Couldn’t replace exchange street with a smaller structure unless you just built an outhouse.
Until recently, when a train station is replaced, it was normally replaced with a smaller structure. The classic example is Houston’s Grand Central Station replaced by a concrete shanty.