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Home > Leadership > Mayor > Archive Press Releases > 2007 Archives > September 2007 > Mayor Brown Announces Completion of Genesee Street Reconstruction Project

Mayor Brown Announces Completion of Genesee Street Reconstruction Project

Source/Contact
Office of the Mayor
Peter K. Cutler
Director of Communications
716-851-4841

$ 8.9 Million project improves safety for both vehicles and pedestrians

BUFFALO – Mayor Byron W. Brown today announced the successful completion of the Genesee Street reconstruction project from Bailey Avenue to East End Street at Buffalo’s eastern City line.

The two-year, $8.9 million project was built with 80% Federal Highway Administration funding, 15% New York State Department of Transportation funding and the City of Buffalo funding the remaining 5%.

The project was included complete pavement reconstruction, curbs, sidewalks, traffic signals& signs, drainage system, street lighting, new waterlines and separation of storm & sanitary sewers.
 
“This project improves safety for both vehicles and pedestrians, helps reduce emissions, improves economic standards locally and it will help stabilize the commercial activity in the area” said Mayor Brown.       

The project, from Bailey Avenue to the eastern City line, eliminated severe distressed pavement, inadequate subsurface drainage, deteriorated curbs, sidewalk and driveways all within the existing Right-of-Way. The reconstructed roadway will also improve safety and capacity within project limits.

The street pavement was narrowed 1½ feet on each side of the street increasing its stamped concrete snow storage capacity.  In addition, 166 new trees were planted along the sidewalk on either side of Genesee Street. The new pavement has a 1½ feet travel lane in each direction with an adjacent 8 foot parking lane and a 9-foot continuous two-way left turn center median lane.

Also improved were the street’s inadequate traffic signal and street lighting system. Due to accident safety concerns with the shared through travel and parking lane, on street parking was provided throughout the project area on the both sides of street. The project also included the separation of storm water from sanitary sewage under state mandate and replaced an existing 100-year old plus waterline with a new 10” diameter water main including all the services. A separate main trunk storm sewer system was installed from each end of the project, which will discharge into the Scajaquada Creek at Kerns Avenue.