Fountain Plaza station explained

Fountain Plaza
Style:	NFTA
Address:	580 Main Street Buffalo, New York
Structure:	At-grade
Platform:	2 low-level side platforms
Tracks:	2
Opened:	^[1]
Rebuilt:	March 30 – October 14,
Accessible:	yes
Owned:	NFTA
Zone:	Free fare (inbound) Paid fare (outbound)
Former:	Huron
Passengers:	448,928^[2]
Pass Year:	2017
Mapframe:	yes
Mapframe-Custom:	Shape: none Line: none Marker: rail-light Zoom: 14

Fountain Plaza (formerly Huron) is a Buffalo Metro Rail station located in the 500 block of Main Street between Huron and Chippewa Streets. Fountain Plaza serves the northern section of the Buffalo Downtown Central Business District and the Buffalo Theater District since the permanent closing of Theater station on February 18, 2013. Fountain Plaza is at the north end of the Free Fare Zone, where customers traveling north are required to have proof-of-payment.

Bus connections

• At West Chippewa and Pearl Streets (heading south only):
  • 7 Baynes-Richmond (inbound)
  • 8 Main (inbound)
  • 64 Lockport (inbound)
  • 66 Williamsville
  • 67 Cleveland Hill
  • 81 Eastside (inbound)
  • 204 Airport–Downtown Express
• At East Chippewa and Washington Streets (heading south only):
  • 74 Hamburg

Notable places nearby

Fountain Plaza station is located near:

• Alleyway Theatre
• Andrews Theatre
• Babeville
• Courier Express Building
• Market Arcade Building
• AMC Market Arcade 8
• Shea's Performing Arts Center
• Trinity Episcopal Church
• Fountain Plaza
• Buffalo Savings Bank (now M & T Bank)
• Calumet Building
• Electric Building
• Genesee Building (now Hyatt Regency Hotel)
• Genesee Hotel (now Olympic Towers)
• New Era Cap Company
• The Avant (formerly Thaddeus J. Dulski Federal Building)

See also

• List of Buffalo Metro Rail stations

Notes and References

1. News: Gargan . Edward A. . Trolley Line Returns to Buffalo . September 19, 2021 . The Berkshire Eagle . New York Times Wire Service . October 11, 1984 . . 33. Newspapers.com.
2. Web site: Metro Rail Expansion Project Final Scoping Document . May 2019 . 11 June 2019.