Accessing in Brief

Measures of Success

• Increased Metro Ridership into Downtown
• Increased and Better Use of On-street Parking
• Maintain High Ramp Occupancy
• Decrease in % of one-way streets (currently 40%)
• Increase in Park N’ Go Ridership
• Compare # of Parking Spaces per FAR, City vs. Suburbs

Top Rules for Accessing Downtown

• Common sense approach that recognizes fiscal reality Intermodal
• Need a More Efficient use of Real Estate and Infrastructure
• Access = Mobility + Opportunity
• Need to establish access priorities, parking is not the only issue
• Seek better coordination between access providers and modes,inter and intra-agency and mode.
• Relationship between access and business development
• Signage

Existing Projects

• Short Term Parking Plan
• Improve Lighting Downtown
• Expansion of the Adams Parking Ramp
• Expansion of the Augspurger Parking Ramp
• Chippewa Street Improvements
• Erie Canal Harbor
• Street Circulation Revisions
• Metropolitan Transportation Center
• Intermodal Transportation Center
• Long Term Parking Plan
• Park N’ Go Shuttle Program
• Return of Vehicular Traffic to Main Street

Work to Date

• Destination Downtown Buffalo 2002! and Desmond Associates Report
• Report of the Mayor’s Parking Advisory Committee
• Report of the Downtown Parking Committee
• Feasibility of Cars Sharing Main Street
• 1995 Central Business District Parking Study
• Cars Sharing Main Street Staff Analysis
• Return of Vehicular Traffic to Main Street -Environmental Assessment

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