Average price of a ticket, in Canadian dollars, during the first year of Buffalo Bills’ five-year, eight-game, $78 million series in Toronto, which began n 2008. By comparison, the average price of a Bills game in Orchard Park in 2008 was $51. Seen by many as a move necessary to maintain the Bills’ financial security in Buffalo, the NFL’s International Committee approved a five-year extension of the Toronto series on May 22, although reports say the value of the deal—and ticket prices too—will be “significantly” less than before.

Miles from Canalside to the Small Boat Harbor, using Ohio Street. At the Buffalo Niagara Riverkeeper’s Buffalo River Summit on Monday, May 21, Congressman Brian Higgins noted that an investment in improving the Ohio Street corridor would obviate the need for new bridge connecting Canalside to the Outer Harbor. This marks a change in position for higgins, for whom a new bridge which has been a priority project. Higgins estimated that improving Ohio Street, which would encourage development along the corridor, would cost between $7 million and $9 million, or 1/10th the cost of a proposed Buffalo Harbor Bridge.