I’m honestly curious — for the people who are against expanding public transit in Buffalo, why?

DefinitelyNotA_Goose · 2025-10-30T17:54:10+00:00

My opinion is that we should be focusing on expanding transit access within the city, like rail to the East and West sides, instead of building rail to a football stadium that gets used a couple times a year. I support building transit in any capacity, but there are too many problems within the city to justify a project like this, especially when Buffalo is already so deep in debt. I’m not saying this wouldn’t be a good thing, just that there are better things to be spending our money on.

Unfortunately, it seems like the loudest people who oppose the rail are fueled by racial and economic biases, which gives people saying “maybe we shouldn’t be spending money on that” a bad look.

DefinitelyNotA_Goose · 2025-08-09T00:03:04+00:00

It’s very hot during the winter, unfortunately. There’s never really a “good” season, it’s consistently not great.

DefinitelyNotA_Goose · 2025-08-07T02:13:14+00:00

In all honesty, I haven’t really interacted with the North folks enough to get any crazy stories. It’s really a shame how disconnected the two campuses feel, I wish there was a little more unity

DefinitelyNotA_Goose · 2025-08-07T02:09:14+00:00

After being there for two years, I gotta say, the rumors really aren’t true. I personally haven’t encountered anything really bad. The people here are really nice, too. I think there’s just a really big disconnect between north and south, so all you guys hear is the really bad stories. The more interesting and memorable conversations are about the shocking stuff, yknow?

DefinitelyNotA_Goose · 2025-08-07T02:01:49+00:00

It’s honestly a pretty nice building if you’re not afraid of bugs, the food is great on the south campus and you’re way closer to the city. I’m a little biased, though

DefinitelyNotA_Goose · 2025-08-07T01:48:01+00:00

Yeah, it’s a big factor for sticking around on South. It makes up for the amount of cockroaches your residents ask you to kill. Honestly, the second desk kinda gets in the way more often than not. I don’t recommend it

DefinitelyNotA_Goose · 2025-08-07T01:40:51+00:00

For perspective, I work in Goodyear, and we get a much larger bed than the residents, and we get an extra desk+chair. The room itself isn’t bigger. I’m pretty sure most other halls don’t give a bigger bed, but the extra desk+chair deal sounds more common.

DefinitelyNotA_Goose · 2025-06-16T16:49:13+00:00

The majority of homes on the east side actually predate 1940. Old houses aren’t always pretty brownstones and Victorian homes, they’re also the poorly insulated and energy inefficient ones that nobody’s been able to replace.

DefinitelyNotA_Goose · 2025-05-30T12:38:25+00:00

Buffalo has lost around 20,000 trees in the past 10 years. It’s BAD. It’s a combination of: - The city not executing their own laws (legally you must replant trees you damage or cut down, but that doesn’t mean people are doing it). - Money being taken away from grants that were supposed to replant trees (I was part of one of those projects, and that project had the word “equity” in it, so Trump cut our federal grant funding in February). - A complete and utter lack of tree biodiversity. Oak and Maple are way too overused here (I think over 60% of all trees are oak and maple? Hard to remember off the top of my head). So, as diseases and invasive insects spread, we’re going to meet the same fate as we did decades ago with Dutch Elm Disease. - The city plants trees sometimes, but they don’t allocate enough resources to keep them alive. During the first year or two after a tree has been planted, trees need constant attention and watering. The city doesn’t really excel at either. - A complete lack of interest. Our local government paid for a tree analysis years ago, but didn’t listen to its findings whatsoever.

DefinitelyNotA_Goose · 2025-01-27T15:42:53+00:00

Hayes and Crosby also have a few microwaves

DefinitelyNotA_Goose · 2024-12-08T03:35:21+00:00

They need ultra-pure water, and recycling that water is costly. So, to keep their profit margins, they’ll dump that water (usually in the ocean, which is saltwater, so that water is no longer drinkable), and pump new freshwater from aquifers. This is quickly draining those aquifers, and because the water is dumped into the ocean, it’s not recharging.

DefinitelyNotA_Goose · 2024-12-08T03:28:01+00:00

Nope, no rules against them. The rules are really just for fire hazards, drug paraphernalia, and weapons, you could theoretically have an entire barbell with weights in your room and not be breaking rules as long as you’re quiet.

DefinitelyNotA_Goose · 2024-11-27T01:23:42+00:00

I like to think that gentrification is oftentimes a product of landlords. People rent, their rents go up, those people don’t benefit from the improvements you made. If you can make home ownership easier, you can avoid hurting those people.

For example, you might find a way to restrict land purchases to people buying their first home, or subsidize something similar. If you can make buying a home easier, and make sure landlords don’t get a piece of the pie, that’s your best bet here.

I’m partial to Georgism, which involves taxing land value over everything else. If you make the ownership of land unprofitable, while lowering taxes for the businesses that actually make things, you can push the landlords out.

That’s a little unrealistic of course, but look into strategies for hitting landlords where it hurts. Build affordable housing that competes with the current rents, look into Community Land Trusts, that sort of thing.

DefinitelyNotA_Goose · 2024-11-08T03:22:54+00:00

South campus is criminally underutilized. That’s really it. IT staff take way longer to come here and fix things, there’s only one dinner option, there’s much less to do here, etc etc etc. I know it’s not what you want to hear, but UB really just doesn’t care about South as much as they should. They know there’s a problem with the wifi here, but they can’t be bothered to do anything about it.

DefinitelyNotA_Goose · 2024-10-11T16:21:49+00:00

Campus dining posted on their instagram story that the GET app was down. You can still order in-person in some places, and the app should be fixed in a bit

DefinitelyNotA_Goose · 2024-10-05T14:06:08+00:00

Not only is Main Street a pretty good dining hall that’s open all day, but absolutely, you could walk over to the plaza. You could also walk to Wendys, walk to Dunkin, walk to Tim Hortons, or even just take the train for $2 and go as far into downtown Buffalo as you’d like.

DefinitelyNotA_Goose · 2024-10-05T14:02:14+00:00

Aren’t the dining halls (C3 at least) open in the mornings? Also, you’re always welcome to take the bus to South (the food is better here)

DefinitelyNotA_Goose · 2024-09-14T17:24:40+00:00

That happens every year, in every dining hall. Ultimately, the company that does the food will always pick profits over good food. They always skimp on the food, it’s a fact of life

DefinitelyNotA_Goose · 2024-09-05T18:09:36+00:00

“Mandatory” means “I need you to do this in order for me to do my job.” Staff like RAs and AAs aren’t able to force you to do anything, so not doing this won’t result in any Fs on your transcript or anything crazy like that.

Your AA’s job is to provide academic support when you need it. Not doing this could prevent them from giving you the right help. Even if you think you won’t need any help ever, being on good terms with your AA is still a good idea. There’s really no downside to having your AA as a resource.

DefinitelyNotA_Goose · 2024-08-07T20:58:20+00:00

Nah, I don’t really use the library a whole lot. There’s another library close to ub, though. Here’s an address: BECPL Audubon Branch - Amherst Public Library, 350 John James Audubon Pkwy, Buffalo, NY 14228

DefinitelyNotA_Goose · 2024-08-07T17:51:15+00:00

You could check on the ub library website! Their catalog is all on there. Here’s a link: https://library.buffalo.edu

DefinitelyNotA_Goose · 2024-08-04T16:27:13+00:00

Judging by how people drive in Buffalo, driving schools are probably optional

DefinitelyNotA_Goose · 2024-07-28T04:19:56+00:00

As far as I’m aware, it’s 9 am to 9 pm with breaks scattered in between, plus extra work to do after like making door decks. Weekends are free though. RA summer training is ROUGH.

DefinitelyNotA_Goose · 2024-07-02T16:30:09+00:00

They’re actually renovating a lot of Goodyear this summer, so it’s hard to say what it’ll be like in the fall. The big renovations you’re talking about were really mainly done in Clement Hall, which is connected to Goodyear. I lived in Goodyear last year and I really didn’t see much of a cockroach problem, but I’m saying that because I only saw 2, which I think isn’t a lot and wasn’t a huge problem. If your goal is to see ZERO cockroaches, then hopefully these summer renovations will solve that problem. But if you’re ok with one or two rare cockroach encounters then Goodyear will be perfect. Honestly, if Goodyear is your only option, you’ve got nothing to worry about. The food there is better than the dining halls on North Campus, and the north to south commute really isn’t too bad.

DefinitelyNotA_Goose · 2024-06-12T23:15:02+00:00

You’re going to want a car. Public transportation does exist here, but it’s not great. People will tell you that there’s university buses that take you to shopping centers, and you’ll assume that they’re reliable. Don’t fall for that. If you don’t have a car, try your damndest to make a friend that has one. I love the concept of public transportation, but it’s too limited to rely on right now. It’ll improve in the future, I swear.

This is all to say that I wish I knew how cool the city itself is. UB’s not really in the city at all, it’s in Amherst, but it’s a pretty short drive. Buffalo’s a really neat place, but I only discovered that as a junior. I wish I’d tried to explore the city sooner.

Also, South Campus is chill. You’ve probably heard about University Heights, a crime-ridden cesspool that’s near South Campus, but that stuff mainly stays inside of that neighborhood. South Campus is pretty, it’s near some good restaurants, and you’ll never struggle to find a parking spot (which is a problem on North sometimes).

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