Three sites for new Buffalo train station all pose challenges

The task of selecting the location for a new Buffalo train station will be handed to a blue ribbon panel that will spend a million dollars studying the question over the next six months.

Mayor Byron Brown anticipates announcing the committee members this week, though the site probably won’t be known until mid- to late-2017.

Three sites dominate the conversation so far: Canalside, a short distance from the current station on Exchange Street, the Central Terminal, where Amtrak last operated trains in 1979, and Larkinville.
While it’s too soon to know how much a train station in Buffalo will cost, the new Niagara Falls station, which includes bus service, cost $43 million.

Here is a look at the three sites, their advantages and disadvantages, and the people and groups supporting the different sites.

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