Khristopher J Brooks

@AmericanGlow

Rep. Louise Slaughter hopes to make Rochesterians commute to Buffalo much faster.

During a grand opening ceremony for Rochester Institute of Technology's Center for Urban Entrepreneurship, Slaughter told the crowd that she's looking for federal funding to create a high-speed rail link between the two cities.

She didn't give too many other specifics about the project other than to say the rail would allow Rochesterians to fill jobs in Buffalo and vice versa. The plan would require New York to build new train tracks from here to the Nickel City. The idea drew cheers from the crowd on Monday.

KJBROOKS@Gannett.com