Students' Imaginations Track
12/12/2025
Buffalo Light Rail, Best Days Ahead
UB Small Built Works Project students discuss light rail with Citizens for Regional Transit representative Jim Gordon.
Buffalo has a light rail system, yes.
But you ain't seen nothing yet.
No, there's no money on the table, no promise to even initiate the studies - beyond those already in play for the proposed Amherst extension anyway (which ain't nothing to be sure).
But even so there are factors in play that guarantee Buffalo will one day see the completion of a sprawling transit rail network beyond its current stunted line.
Buffalo is for example regarded as a "Climate Refuge City" which means it will, as coastline cities become increasingly unstable under evident disruptive climate changes be a tempting place to bring back industry over the long haul.
Aligning student design expertise from UB's School of Architecture and Planning's Small Built Works Project with the visionaries of the Citizens for Regional Transit (CRT), ideas for a vastly expanded light rail network throughout Buffalo were presented to a filled room of the curious, advocates, and feet-wetters like yours truly.
BuffScan isn't about light rail in the Buffalo area but I'm known for such websites and am poising to kick of one for the Buffalo area, which maybe the coverage of Buffalo light rail I've been giving may have since hinted. The students at UB have sketched the vision, and the CRT is holding the map. As for me? I’m ready to build the digital infrastructure to track it all.
Stay tuned.
UB Small Built Works Project light rail design renditions on display.
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- Amherst NY Scanner caught Trader Joe's opening day and was in awe of the turnout which included local media and the EC Sherriff's Office.
- Buffalo Street News 716 posted video and images of a multi-vehicle accident, post crash in Seneca.
- Tim Newkirk has posted his dismay over the opening of a strip club in the very area of the Jefferson Avenue TOPs -- site of the 2022 mass shooting.
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BuffScan Pokey Report
The following are fresh listings in the publicly distributed Erie County Jail Roster as of yesterday.
Booking Date 12/11/25- ALERS, HIPOLITO
- ASAAD, GHAZI M
- FANNAN, SARAH
- GRIECO, JUSTIN
- HILL, DASHAWN R
- MUZUREK, JESSE
- NELSON, JOSEPH W
- NSHIMIYIMANA, ERIC
- PARADISO, ANNMARIE A
- PLEASANT, ONDRAY L
- REFERMAT, RONALD
- TOOLS, EDMUND
- WILLOUGHBY, HELENA
** 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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