LaSalle (Metro Rail)

Infobox Station
name = LaSalle Street
type = Buffalo Metro Rail Station
style = NFTA


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address = Main & LaSalle Avenue
Buffalo, NY
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structure = Underground
platform = High
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owned = Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority
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LaSalle Station is located near the north end of the Metro Rail light rail line in Buffalo, New York.

Bus Connections

Located on the north side of Main Street, across from Lasalle and Minnesota Avenues, this is the only underground station that does not connect with any bus route other than the 8-Main bus line.

Points of Interest

LaSalle station is near:

* All-High Stadium
* Bennett High School
* Shoshone Park
* University Heights District

This station also has an 800-car parking lot used as supplemental parking for commuters when the Park-And-Ride lot is filled at University Station. Ironically, much of the lot was intended to carry light rail cars on a north-western diagonal to the City of Tonawanda and Niagara Falls using the built-out Tonawanda Turnout just south of the station. The "Tonawanda Corridor" and "Niagara River Corridor" were the proposed lines that would serve this spur. To this day, the turnout only serves as a reminder of an extended Metro Rail system.

Artwork

In 1979, an art selection committee was created, comprised of NFTA commissioners and Buffalo area art experts, that would judge the artwork that would be displayed in and on the properties of eight stations on the Metro Rail line.

Out of the seventy proposals submitted, twenty-two were chosen and are currently positioned inside and outside of the eight underground stations.Buffalo Art in Transit, Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority, c. 1986.]

Lasalle Station is home of one piece of artwork, from Richard Gubernick of Buffalo.

References

External links

* [http://www.fortunecity.com/oasis/acapulco/897/success.html Metro Rail Success]