Private buses on Barker Avenue because Hamilton is ONE way.

Various private buses, not the big regionals like Adirondack or Greyhound, but the less big ones, probably carrying corporate passengers, travel away from the Transmania Center on residential Barker Avenue to North Broadway about 6 PM on weekdays. They should take non-residential Hamilton Avenue but they cannot even if they wanted to because many years ago the City of White Plains made Hamilton one way for about half the distance between North Broadway and the Transmania and no one in recent years has changed that.

This blog has had several posts asking about all the bus traffic in downtown. A basic reason it has never been an issue is that Common Council members, CNA type groups and what passes for media concentrate on junk issues like FASNY, Railside, etc. stuff that impacts a very small percentage of residents, who live outside downtown. Another reason is that few, if any, of them walk around the downtown. Ever.

Quality of life issues downtown are non-existent for them. None have ever thought to examine all this bus traffic. These buses, including the county Bee Line, probably have a very small percentage of their seats occupied and the percent of riders who are White Plains residents is also probably very small.

Maybe that's incorrect. If so, make the correction. That would require examining the issue. It would also mean delaying the planning by the TransCenter task force in developing the desolate area near the train station/ bus depots.