Amherst Street restriping causes concern for businesses, residents [Video]

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Earlier this week, the city of Buffalo Department of Public Works began restriping Amherst Street near Wegmans. 

“This year we’ve had an increased striping budget, which is good,” DPW Commissioner Nate Marton said. “We can fit some of these specialty projects, and this is one of them.”

Commissioner Marton says the DPW realigned parts of Amherst Street near the Wegmans to allow traffic to, in theory, turn into the parking lot easier. 

“[They’re] having an issue with oncoming, they’re scooting way over, they’re getting close to the yellow line, and sometimes actually going over that yellow line, having a little bit of an opposing traffic problem, trying to allow people to go by and keep parking on both sides,” Marton said.

Part of that realignment, however, included the removal of several …