Many commuters and tourists, who drive from Niagara Falls to Lewiston and further north to Youngstown, view the Robert Moses Parkway in Niagara County as a convenient and necessary route of travel. But many others -- as evidenced by an online petition drive started by the Niagara Heritage Partnership, a local environmental group -- view the road as an underused blight on the landscape that should be torn down to restore public access to the area's waterfront.
The idea to remove a section of the parkway between Niagara Falls and Lewiston reportedly has the support of 100 regional, national, and international organizations including the Sierra Club and the Buffalo Audubon Society. The Mayor of Niagara Falls has made it a priority to proceed with the removal in stages, according to a story in the Buffalo News.
The story reports that the petition has the names of more than 5,000 individuals and groups, including more than 30 Niagara Falls block clubs and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. of Riverkeeper, the Hudson River clean water advocacy group; David Suzuki, a leading Canadian environmentalist; and actor Ed Begley Jr., a Stella Niagara alumnus.
The story is on the paper's Web site at: http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/niagaracounty/story/586802.html
