Buffalo Light Rail - Expanded and Anew For All!
12/09/2025
DL&W Station Opens
Your boy is Johnny on the Spot.
Some forty-odd years later, NFTA's Metro Rail is still growing!
The latest NFTA Metro Rail Station, the DL&W, opened yesterday and here's BuffScan's ad hoc documentary proving it. At approximately 11:30 AM a train loaded with dignitaries (and yours truly) broke through a paper banner and rolled into the new DL&W Station. What followed next was an hour of celebration and speeches.
In seeking out how to be a part of all that (or rather, "fine-tune my presence") it was exceedingly difficult. Local MSM media had plenty of information circulating about the start of service into the station in general, but nothing about the timing or place of any ceremony. This bifurcated splash between dignitaries and citizens became a running point of discussion in a Reddit thread I started to assure all that I had made it. This thing is for everyone in the city to use, right?
Granted, my experience at these things may be a bit skewed. Having been an active blogger in the 90s, I was rolled into the opening day ceremonies for that city's Teco Line Streetcar network by literal mayoral invite. But beyond me, it felt like the entire city came out that day. You couldn't escape hearing about it.
Too, Moday's event was an extension of - not the big falootin' opening of the metro rail itself like in the 1980s. And too, right now, the city is said to be kind of cash-strapped so maybe not thousands and thousands of people showing up at the decorated card table for cake isn't exactly a bad thing. Fact is, that would be an impossible thing. We have to give credit that the planners who executed here know what they were doing as evidenced by the fact that they pulled it all off brilliantly.
My little video above, a bit crude in the editing I give you, is of me happening upon the dignitary train at exactly just the right time (my original plan was to walk to the new DL&W station itself and take my chances on whatever was happening there). After some careful mulling and a quick nod to one of the right people, I was allowed on board with a few other average folks who came off as excited as I was.
Missed however, was that grand "second" opening milestone which was the first arrival of a real-world fare-bearing public train. I tried for that but miscalculated hopping on the right train by apparently just minutes. Not to worry though, fellow transit nerd known online as "Bus and Rail Fan" on his YouTube Channel nailed it with the below video.
Video features the first public train into the new station. Credit Bus and Rail Fan YT Channel
Spotter Watch - Spotters on The Spot
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- Amherst NY Scanner shares a picture of a vehicle that has gone through the glass window of a Pets Supplies Plus store at 9630 Transit.
- 716 Street News posted video of a post-collision scene at Fillmore and Paderewski between a First Student school bus and a vehicle that reportedly sent several children, and the vehicle's driver, to the hospital.
- Fire Buff NY posted dramatic video of a fire at 1270 Orchard Park Road. Fire Buff reports that a cat was rescued in the process.
- Facebook user Be SumboDii posted video of a man "engaging" Buffalo Police from his balcony.
- Facebook user Ken Daniela posted a picture of his stolen vehicle recovered by Buffalo Police, but only after a crash.
** If you operate a digital place for the presentation of captured news and drama and would like to be regularly reviewed for BuffScan's "Spotters on the Spot", please let me know.
BuffScan Pokey Report
The following are fresh listings in the publicly distributed Erie County Jail Roster as of yesterday.
Booking Date 12/08/25- ADAMS, BENNIE
- CLEMONS, TIMOTHY L
- DIXON, CHAR D
- GATES, DEANDRE
- HAMP, NICHOLAS
- VIRDI, MANDEEP
- SMITH, JAYDEN
- TRACY, RICHARD
- TROUTMAN, DANDRE
- WILLIAMS, SHIREFF
** In providing this convenient aggregate listing please keep in mind the following: Incarceration in county jail does not imply guilt - statistically, most inmates are in fact legally innocent and are only incarcerated pending further legal proceedings. As well, many circumstances including mental health and addiction issues can lead to behavioral turbulence and conflicts with society that result in jail. In noting incarceration status please adopt a compassion-first regard. For a variety of reasons the given list may not be all inclusive of those individuals actually processed.
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