Every year, Chuck commits to traveling to all62 counties in New York to meet with constituents.
\nOn June 6, 2014 Schumer launched his campaign to secure vital federal funding to transform Rochester's Main Street into a thriving area for pedestrians, retail and commercial activity. For the better part of the past 30 years, Main Street has essentially been a bus transfer point and bus parking lot, which has stifled retail growth and pedestrian-friendly development from getting underway. Schumer explained that, with a new indoor RTS bus station set to open on St. Paul Street downtown in November, thanks to funding Schumer secured over the past decade, bus traffic will now be moved off Main Street, creating a unique opportunity to revitalize the area. Schumer announced that he is pushing for the City of Rochester to receive a $1.6 million federal Transportation Alternatives Program (TAP) grant to fund a major $2.4 million overhaul of Main Street from the Liberty Pole to the Genesee River that would include up to 50 new on-street parking spaces that are estimated to generate hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of new retail sales opportunities for Main Street businesses, support development of the existing sites now under renovation like the Sibley Building and Midtown site, and help attract new retail and commercial activity to Main Street.