This from an organization dominated by people who do not live anywhere near downtown and refuse to have a single meeting anywhere near downtown.
from: WPCNA <rsvp@wpcna.org>via mail181.wdc02.mcdlv.net
reply-to: WPCNA
date: Sat, Jun 9, 2018 at 5:56 PM
subject: June Meeting: Roundtable -- Airbnb, Dockless Bike Shares, New High Rises
HIGH-RISE CONSTRUCTION AND URBAN SPRAWL
A number of new high-rise apartment complexes have been recently completed, are under construction, or are planned for the near future in White Plains. These include 52 Broadway, 65 Lake Street, Broadstone White Plains, 440 Hamilton Avenue, 1 Dekalb Avenue, 121 Westmoreland Avenue (Norden Lofts), 136 Westmoreland Avenue, 55 Bank Street (The Continuum), 60 South Broadway (The Pavilion), and 95 South Broadway and 4 Lyon Place (The Esplanade). The newer projects bring traffic, noise, and congestion to neighborhoods once dominated by single family homes and open land. For the City, urban sprawl promises relief from a disproportionate reliance on the City sales tax and nuisance revenues. For residents, the sprawl signifies an unwelcome change in the quality of life.
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No self respecting CNA official lives anywhere near any of these places.
Sunday, June 10, 2018
Friday, June 8, 2018
Turn only lanes made even more dangerous by bike rentals.
White Plains Police consider it legal for the second lane to also turn when there is a turn only lane. The result is that two lanes of cars may turn into pedestrians in the crosswalk. This is exacerbated at the places where cars are trying desperately to cross over the five lanes of one way traffic to enter a garage on the opposite side of the street. Examples:
- Galleria garage at Martine Avenue and MLK Blvd.
- Galleria garage on South Lexington Avenue from right on Main Street.
- Main Street into Galleria garage after left from South Lexington Avenue.
Now there is suddenly a flood of rental bicycles, which surprisingly have become attractive to teenagers. Fortunately, riders have mostly had the good sense so far to not use the absurd bike lanes. They are usually riding on sidewalks. Here is an example of how the turn only lanes are dangerous to bike riders.
At the intersection of Martine Avenue and South Lexington Avenue, ironically adjacent to the Public Safety building, traffic on South Lexington Avenue has these three adjacent lanes:
- turn only lane
- bike go straight only lane
- second "it's OK in WP to also turn" lane.
Those are the three lanes. A bike would be trapped between TWO lanes of turning cars. How the heck can that be safe? And yet it's been that way for years. The only thing that's prevented an accident is that hardly anyone uses those ridiculously dangerous bike lanes. But now the rental bikes makes this a real possibility.
Do the right thing. Change the most dangerous situations immediately. Then FINALLY implement some common sense changes that radically improve quality of life in downtown White Plains.
The Common Council has finally got to stop serving the interests of its neighbors in the house neighborhoods who only want to conveniently drive and park in downtown for their amusement. Be responsible.
- Galleria garage at Martine Avenue and MLK Blvd.
- Galleria garage on South Lexington Avenue from right on Main Street.
- Main Street into Galleria garage after left from South Lexington Avenue.
Now there is suddenly a flood of rental bicycles, which surprisingly have become attractive to teenagers. Fortunately, riders have mostly had the good sense so far to not use the absurd bike lanes. They are usually riding on sidewalks. Here is an example of how the turn only lanes are dangerous to bike riders.
At the intersection of Martine Avenue and South Lexington Avenue, ironically adjacent to the Public Safety building, traffic on South Lexington Avenue has these three adjacent lanes:
- turn only lane
- bike go straight only lane
- second "it's OK in WP to also turn" lane.
Those are the three lanes. A bike would be trapped between TWO lanes of turning cars. How the heck can that be safe? And yet it's been that way for years. The only thing that's prevented an accident is that hardly anyone uses those ridiculously dangerous bike lanes. But now the rental bikes makes this a real possibility.
Do the right thing. Change the most dangerous situations immediately. Then FINALLY implement some common sense changes that radically improve quality of life in downtown White Plains.
The Common Council has finally got to stop serving the interests of its neighbors in the house neighborhoods who only want to conveniently drive and park in downtown for their amusement. Be responsible.
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