Inside the former Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad terminal, which doubles as the NFTA Rail Maintenance Yard, you have reached the DL&W station, a Buffalo Metro Rail stop on the first floor beside the Buffalo River. This station replaced the former Special Events station and was the first expansion of the line since it was completed in 1986. It gives commuters access to parking, Metro Rail service to the city, and a direct pedestrian walkway to Canalside areas.
A second entrance, via the second floor of the terminal from South Park Avenue at Illinois Street, is under construction. Plans call for an enclosed pedestrian skywalk from the second floor over South Park Avenue to the KeyBank Center. A new crosswalk was constructed from behind the KeyBank Center to Canalside and the Riverwalk trail along the Buffalo River; the $1.7 million crossing was newly added to the plan to provide safe access across Metro Rail tracks to the increasingly busy area at the foot of Main Street.
Picture the walkway that leads straight to Canalside, and the skywalk planned to link this terminal to the KeyBank Center.