ROCHESTER NY - Congresswomen Louise Slaughter (D-NY), of Rochester's 28th Congressional District, has always opposed Monroe County's Renaissance Square concept of a combined Monroe Community College campus / bus station / performing arts center in the middle of downtown Rochester. She has argued from the start that instead they should have a combined Amtrak and bus terminal at the current rail station on Central Ave, north of downtown.
Well, the 79 year old Congresswoman who was just elected to serve her 12th term by 78% of voters, may get her wish. Well, part of it. Temporarily. See, when the Trailways and Greyhound terminals have to move out of Midtown Plaza at the end of December (when they get ready to tear it down), they will move the buses to the rail station. They don't have much choice, because Renaissance Square is a long way from being built across the street (if it's ever built).
This isn't what Slaughter originally called for - she wanted all the city buses there at the train station too, as is called for in the Ren. Square plan - but I find it funny just the same. The county always said there isn't enough room at the train station and that traffic patterns would not support the buses. That is true if you were to include all the city buses as well, but I still get a kick out of the situation. They came down so hard on Slaughter's plan from the start...a plan that is now in part being put into place until the county can build Ren. Square, which is proving as hard to get off the ground as Slaughter has said it would be from the start.
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