Luxury rental apartments near: train station cool, bus depot NOT cool.

Port Authority Bus Terminal Manhattan

NOBODY is his/her right mind wants to live near a bus depot, which currently exits at the White Plains train station and which, if anything, will become even more prominent if planners continue with conventional thinking. There are actually two bus depots: county Bee-Line and a mess of others.

With a new bridge planned across the Hudson River it's inevitable that the Trancenter task force members will assume that more buses should be routed to the downtown train station. They're moving the chairs around on the deck of the Titanic. This is probably the most fundamental issue that they should be addressing and they don't even know it.

If not there, then where should the busses go? I think most White Plains residents don't really care but here are suggestions.

1. Along interstate highway 287, maybe in one of those corporate parks that are now considered obsolete. They were never a good idea.

2. Adjacent to the North White Plains train station, especially now that the MTA has opened that nice big parking garage east of the tracks.

Either of those sites would get those huge buses off downtown residential streets, including North Broadway south of 287 and Barker Avenue.

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