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Thursday, July 21, 2016

Millennials to the suburbs on bikes?

Wow, the mayor and planning commissioner must be right:

Bike Lanes Are Bringing More Millennials to the Suburbs by Clare Trapasso July 20, 2016 6:00 am ET realtor.com

It’s what passes for conventional wisdom these days ...
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The task force and/or Common Council should do a sanity check.

Mount up as a group and ride bicycles around downtown White Plains on the bike lanes. Be sure to ride through the Transmania train station and bus depot area. Try it along the streets with the most buses.

Go ahead, I dare you. Then report back to the public on your experience.

What's that, you know improvements must be made? Improvements so massive and unimaginable by current planners, decision makers and administrators, that such a group ride would not be attempted without a police escort.

Until you've done this simple common sense thing, you have not even begun to deal with transforming the Transmania into something Earthlings might recognize as positive.

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