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I used live on Clarence center road and now see a another strip mall right behind my old house location. Glad I moved from there.
Who knows as to wether those farmland preservation efforts are actually working or not.. Clarence as a whole is seeming to be enticing for developers and cookie cutter homes, I'm suspecting that it will continue into Akron/Newstead and further on
First time I ever noticed the resetting of the Transit Road addresses/house numbers was as a little kid. I used to love looking at the automotive section of the newspaper; I would look at all the car dealers' ads and compare the prices being offered for dealers of the same brand (Chevy v Chevy, Ford v Ford, etc). The one day I was perusing the ads, I noticed that Al Maroone Ford (which is now Dave Smith Ford, at the corner of Transit and Wehrle) had a listed address of 4045 Transit Road. How could that be, I wondered, when the then-newly built Tops at Transit and French in Depew was 4777? Perplexed, I asked my mom if we could take a drive to Al Maroone Ford (I was probably 6 or 7 years old at the time) so I could take part in an especially high-stakes edition of what was already one of my favorite pastimes--tracking the rise and fall of house numbers during drives with my parents. She obliged, and I soon discovered that they reset right near the I-90, much to my amazement. And the explanation for that took me much, much longer to realize--as someone above mentioned, each town uses their own sequence. This practice seems a lot more common in rural areas, where each village you might pass on route 5 or 20 or whatever has their own number sequencing...but on a road like Transit, Union, Harlem, NF Blvd, etc, one would not expect it.
This is what happens when your towns elect people that appoint dummies as planners that don't save right-of-Way for an expressway. 25 years ago, we could have extended the Milestrip Expressway into Elma and then Lancaster and Claranxe to link up with the LaSalle. It's still possible, but some homes and business are in the way. Hey, we did it with the 33 and the 90, why not this. Otherwise the problem will just get worse because of eastward expansion towards Genesee County.
There was a time as recently as the early 1990s when large swaths of Transit Rd. were rural and dotted with residences. North of North French/County Rd up almost to Lockport at one point the road narrowed to two lanes (one lane each direction). There were houses, dairy farms, even a few small airfields in Clarence and Pendleton. Transit didn't start becoming more commercialized until you got a few miles into Niagara County near the Transit Drive-In. Even there, up into the 1990s there were a handful of older houses going up north of Robinson Rd. heading toward Lockport.
Please turn you damn lights on as well. I passed more cars dark one with no lights on as well.
All you have to do is turn the switch on the stalk people. I swear there all kinds of idiots now walking the planet
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