That's the only explanation that Common Council members could reasonably offer, although it probably would only occur to individual members if pressed to address the issue, which so far has not happened.
It's also one of those knee jerk reactions that seems plausible but may not be correct. Does anyone know? Maybe the traffic commissioner? Is there any reasonable data on this?
The many new buses can be viewed starting around 4:30 PM on weekdays. Just hang out at the intersection of Church Street and Barker Avenue. One went by a few minutes ago, a double Bee-Line bus making a left turn from Church onto Barker and heading towards the Transmania bus depot at the train station. Why would such a vehicle be taking that route? Does any city official have any idea? Does any care?
Casual observations:
- the number of cars seems at least as many as a couple of years ago before the buses increased dramatically in numbers, size and variety (county, regional, private)
- the buses seem to have a very low percentage of their seats occupied by passengers.
These buses could be replaced by Uber/Lyft without the capital investment, especially for Bee-Line, the county bus system that insists on the website that it has 30 million rides per year. Provide free rides to poor people.
Since the regional planning was not convinced by Westchester County to implement light rail along Interstate 287, White Plains, which did not sufficiently influence the county on this, is now increasingly burdened with absurd bus traffic with little or no benefit to the city, especially those residents who live downtown.
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