Due to the recent and ongoing tragedies in the Delaware Park and Parkside Communities the citizens of Erie County, the City of Buffalo and the State of New York are asking for safety changes in and around Delaware Park.
We, the undersigned, are concerned citizens who urge our leaders to act now to:
1. Turn the Scajaquada Expressway (198) into a Parkway similar design to Outer Harbor Drive, with a permanent speed limit of no more than 30 mph.
2. Create a permanent safety barrier between Rt 198 and Delaware Park patrons.
3. The creation of traffic circles at high risk areas (Delaware & Elmwood Exit Areas).
4. The safe unification of both halves of Delaware Park via Cobblestone crosswalks to slow traffic and create a safe passageway for patrons of the park.
5. Reduce traffic lanes on Parkside Avenue from Rt 198 to Amherst Street to 1 lane in each direction. With parking available on both sides and raised cobblestone crosswalks at every crossing into the park.
6. Clear markings of crosswalks, lane markers, and bike paths in and around the park.
7. A Department of Transportation study focusing on how to improve traffic around the Jewett / Parkside entrance to the Park and Zoo. Possible reversal of traffic inside the park (Entrance on Colvin with traffic flowing out at Parkside)
8. The addition of a permanent memorial for Maksym Sugorovskiy, inside Delaware Park.
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
June 25, 2015
June 5, 2015
We just hit one hundred signatures. It is exhausting to keep pushing when the road ahead feels so long but knowing that this many people are just as tired of the status quo keeps me moving forward.
Reached 100 supporters
June 3, 2015
84 Comments
Tragic that is takes the life of a child to undo the faulty decisions of the past. Safety is the priority. But it's also time to restore Olmsted's original vision and connect the two sections of the park again - not only to memorialize Maksym, but for many future generations of children.
I fully support this petition and look forward to increasing public safety in and around the Delaware Park area. As a new home owner in the Parkside community with young children....I am deeply committed to this cause.
my property on parkside avenue has been damaged by vehicles traveling at an unsafe speed too many times to count. Both 198 and parkside need to be re-engineered, for the safety of residents and visitors to our beautiful neighborhood.
I have spent forty years working for safer traffric conditions on Parkside Avenue. Speed limits require enforcement that has been spotty at best! Cars continue to drive over and tear up lawns. While motorists have been injured and property seriously damaged, it's a miracle that pedestrians have not been killed on the curve at Parkside and Florence Avenues.
I grew up on Parkside Avenue, playing in Delaware Park. My brother, as a little boy, was missed by about 4 feet by a car speeding off of the Scajaquada that drove over our lawn. This situation really needs intelligent action.
I AGREE with Mr. Miller above. Um, I'm sorry but you do NOT speak for ALL the citizens of Erie County, the City of Buffalo and the State of New York! UNBELIEVABLE! How dare YOU use this tragic death of a small child to push forward your agenda to change this roadway to suit you, a few neighborhood special interest groups without a fair due diligent investigation on the impact of this decision on ALL other people of WNY Motorists who use this road to travel thru the city in a expedient fashion. Going forward with this crusade shows that you have no respect for the grieving family of this young child who died and his sister who was seriously wounded by this horrible accident. Your group, the Governor, Sean Ryan and the Mayor of Buffalo all disgust me! The politicians are all typical media whores using this horrible, horrible tragic event to their benefit at the expense of ALL the people in NYS, because if they get there way, they are going to spend millions of taxpayer dollars to redesign and reconstruct the expressway to a nice idyillic parkway road. How nice! This is TOTAL BS for the rest of us! With all of the tight state budget problems where in the hell are they going to get the funds to do a project of this magnitude? I don't know, maybe they will use school budget money that was taken away from all of the states school systems that now desperately need it back to keep our public schools viable. In response immediately after the accident, how come NO one suggested the short term solution to the park road safety issue to immediately install Jersey barriers and to close off the park road section directly adjacent to the expressway where the danger area is and have the users walk or jog a “C” shaped path, and post a sign "Cross and use this portion of the road at your own risk". This would only minimally inconvenience maybe HUNDREDS of people instead of inconveniencing THOUSANDS of WNY expressway drivers by drastically reducing the spe
You people are ridiculous. The installed jersey barriers and existing guard rails prevent the tragedy from ever happening again. Is my car suddenly going to vault steel and concrete barriers if I go another 20mph? If I go 50 around Niagara street or Grant am I going to lose control and drive into Deleware park a mile away? The 30mph speed limit is overkill and unnecessary. Stop being so self centered. Where the Hell do you think the traffic on the 198 is going to go if it is shut down? Yep, into already clogged city streets. Its a busy area: if you don't like it move!
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Due to the recent and ongoing tragedies in the Delaware Park and Parkside Communities the citizens of Erie County, the City of Buffalo and the State of New York are asking for safety changes in and around Delaware Park.
We, the undersigned, are concerned citizens who urge our leaders to act now to:
1. Turn the Scajaquada Expressway (198) into a Parkway similar design to Outer Harbor Drive, with a permanent speed limit of no more than 30 mph.
2. Create a permanent safety barrier between Rt 198 and Delaware Park patrons.
3. The creation of traffic circles at high risk areas (Delaware & Elmwood Exit Areas).
4. The safe unification of both halves of Delaware Park via Cobblestone crosswalks to slow traffic and create a safe passageway for patrons of the park.
5. Reduce traffic lanes on Parkside Avenue from Rt 198 to Amherst Street to 1 lane in each direction. With parking available on both sides and raised cobblestone crosswalks at every crossing into the park.
6. Clear markings of crosswalks, lane markers, and bike paths in and around the park.
7. A Department of Transportation study focusing on how to improve traffic around the Jewett / Parkside entrance to the Park and Zoo. Possible reversal of traffic inside the park (Entrance on Colvin with traffic flowing out at Parkside)
8. The addition of a permanent memorial for Maksym Sugorovskiy, inside Delaware Park.
Updates
Reached 250 supporters
June 25, 2015
June 5, 2015
We just hit one hundred signatures. It is exhausting to keep pushing when the road ahead feels so long but knowing that this many people are just as tired of the status quo keeps me moving forward.
Reached 100 supporters
June 3, 2015
84 Comments
The park is the center of our city. We as a community have been making profound changes to our rust belt image. A highway through our park is a reminder of the decline of Buffalo. A parkway is a way of reclaiming our glorious past for our prospering future.
Tragic that is takes the life of a child to undo the faulty decisions of the past. Safety is the priority. But it's also time to restore Olmsted's original vision and connect the two sections of the park again - not only to memorialize Maksym, but for many future generations of children.
I fully support this petition and look forward to increasing public safety in and around the Delaware Park area. As a new home owner in the Parkside community with young children....I am deeply committed to this cause.
my property on parkside avenue has been damaged by vehicles traveling at an unsafe speed too many times to count. Both 198 and parkside need to be re-engineered, for the safety of residents and visitors to our beautiful neighborhood.
I have spent forty years working for safer traffric conditions on Parkside Avenue. Speed limits require enforcement that has been spotty at best! Cars continue to drive over and tear up lawns. While motorists have been injured and property seriously damaged, it's a miracle that pedestrians have not been killed on the curve at Parkside and Florence Avenues.
I grew up on Parkside Avenue, playing in Delaware Park. My brother, as a little boy, was missed by about 4 feet by a car speeding off of the Scajaquada that drove over our lawn. This situation really needs intelligent action.
I AGREE with Mr. Miller above. Um, I'm sorry but you do NOT speak for ALL the citizens of Erie County, the City of Buffalo and the State of New York! UNBELIEVABLE! How dare YOU use this tragic death of a small child to push forward your agenda to change this roadway to suit you, a few neighborhood special interest groups without a fair due diligent investigation on the impact of this decision on ALL other people of WNY Motorists who use this road to travel thru the city in a expedient fashion. Going forward with this crusade shows that you have no respect for the grieving family of this young child who died and his sister who was seriously wounded by this horrible accident. Your group, the Governor, Sean Ryan and the Mayor of Buffalo all disgust me! The politicians are all typical media whores using this horrible, horrible tragic event to their benefit at the expense of ALL the people in NYS, because if they get there way, they are going to spend millions of taxpayer dollars to redesign and reconstruct the expressway to a nice idyillic parkway road. How nice! This is TOTAL BS for the rest of us! With all of the tight state budget problems where in the hell are they going to get the funds to do a project of this magnitude? I don't know, maybe they will use school budget money that was taken away from all of the states school systems that now desperately need it back to keep our public schools viable. In response immediately after the accident, how come NO one suggested the short term solution to the park road safety issue to immediately install Jersey barriers and to close off the park road section directly adjacent to the expressway where the danger area is and have the users walk or jog a “C” shaped path, and post a sign "Cross and use this portion of the road at your own risk". This would only minimally inconvenience maybe HUNDREDS of people instead of inconveniencing THOUSANDS of WNY expressway drivers by drastically reducing the spe
You people are ridiculous. The installed jersey barriers and existing guard rails prevent the tragedy from ever happening again. Is my car suddenly going to vault steel and concrete barriers if I go another 20mph? If I go 50 around Niagara street or Grant am I going to lose control and drive into Deleware park a mile away? The 30mph speed limit is overkill and unnecessary. Stop being so self centered. Where the Hell do you think the traffic on the 198 is going to go if it is shut down? Yep, into already clogged city streets. Its a busy area: if you don't like it move!
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The park is the center of our city. We as a community have been making profound changes to our rust belt image. A highway through our park is a reminder of the decline of Buffalo. A parkway is a way of reclaiming our glorious past for our prospering future.