Allegany County Office of Development - Transportation

Transit Programs

Access Allegany is a transit program that allows commuters to travel throughout Allegany, Steuben and Cattaraugus Counties by bus for a small fee. The bus schedule is available at http://www.ardentnetwork.org/access-allegany.html.

A new park and ride facility has been approved with construction to start in summer of 2017 that will include a parking center and electric car charging station in Belmont, NY at the Crossroads Conference & Commerce Center.

For more information please read the following press release: http://www.alleganyco.com/news/business/crossroads-center-park-and-ride-moving-forward/

Daily Commute

The average daily commute is approximately 21 minutes, with a majority of commuters driving alone.

Highway

Allegany County is served by the following major highways:

Interstate 86/NYS Route 17 (exits 28 - 33)
NYS Route 19
NYS Route 21
NYS Route 305
NYS Route 417

Rail

Freight rail service is operated by Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad on a mainline east to west route with lines running from Hornell through Alfred, Wellsville, Scio, Belmont, Friendship and Cuba, onto Olean in Cattaraugus County.

Port Facilities

The Port of Buffalo is the first major U.S. Port of Call encountered when entering the Great Lakes and is the nearest port to Allegany County. The Port provides numerous benefits to Buffalo Niagara companies:

Encompasses Foreign Trade Zone No. 23, which means incentives for area businesses
Piers with 27 feet of water (Seaway standard depth)
Two hundred acres located on or near deep water set aside for bulk cargo storage
Sheltered by the harbor breakwall, self-unloaders and conventional bulk carriers can safely discharge and load
Features 230-ton American crawler crane and a heavy-duty front-end loader
Provides in-port rail service via the Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad, interchanging with the CSX, NS, CN, and CP

Airports

The Wellsville Municipal Airport allows for easy access to Allegany County by corporate or private jet with a 5,000 foot runway.

Commercial service flights are offered at several airports within an hour and a half drive including Rochester, Buffalo, Elmira-Corning, and Bradford.

View data for:

Data Name	Value	Percent
Distance to Nearest Major Airport from County Population Centroid
Allegany County, NY (Bradford Rgnl)	58 mi

Railroads

Has Class I rail?

Yes

Class II and/or III lines present?

Yes

Intermodal transport lines present?

Double stack lines present?

Yes

Rail Operators

Name
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
New York Susquehanna and Western Railway Corporation
Norfolk Southern Railway Company
Western New York and Pennsylvania Railroad LLC

Major Ports (within area + 100 mile radius)

No ports

Major (within area + 100 mile radius)

Bradford Rgnl

Data Name	Value
Location ID	BFD
Number of passengers	6,738
Freight	382 lbs
Mail	0 lbs
Runway length	6,307 ft (1,922 m)

Buffalo Niagara Intl

Data Name	Value
Location ID	BUF
Number of passengers	2,894,219
Freight	85,032,216 lbs
Mail	5,788 lbs
Runway length	8,829 ft (2,691 m)

Elmira/Corning Rgnl

Data Name	Value
Location ID	ELM
Number of passengers	152,810
Freight	545,347 lbs
Mail	0 lbs
Runway length	8,001 ft (2,439 m)

Frederick Douglass/Greater Rochester Intl

Data Name	Value
Location ID	ROC
Number of passengers	1,534,346
Freight	124,035,011 lbs
Mail	0 lbs
Runway length	8,001 ft (2,439 m)

Regional (within area + 100 mile radius)

Chautauqua County/Jamestown

Data Name	Value
Location ID	JHW
Number of passengers	23
Freight	0 lbs
Mail	0 lbs
Runway length	5,299 ft (1,615 m)

General Aviation (within area + 50 mile radius)

Arcade Tri-County

Data Name	Value
Runway length	3,220 ft (981 m)

Cattaraugus County-Olean

Data Name	Value
Runway length	4,800 ft (1,463 m)

Dansville Muni

Data Name	Value
Runway length	3,500 ft (1,067 m)

Giermek Exec

Data Name	Value
Runway length	3,150 ft (960 m)

Great Valley

Data Name	Value
Runway length	3,800 ft (1,158 m)

Hornell Muni

Data Name	Value
Runway length	5,000 ft (1,524 m)

Perry-Warsaw

Data Name	Value
Runway length	3,429 ft (1,045 m)

R & R Aero

Data Name	Value
Runway length	4,000 ft (1,219 m)

Wellsville Muni/Tarantine Fld

Data Name	Value
Runway length	5,301 ft (1,616 m)