There are two priorities in White Plains:
- Let cars speed through during rush hour with no benefit to the city. It's sort of like letting strangers use your bathroom. Apparently it's a benefit to businesses in the area.
- Let house owners speed through downtown to get to/from their houses quickly.
https://patch.com/new-york/whiteplains/white-plains-reduces-speed-limits-city-streets
White Plains Reduces Speed Limits On City Streets
The mayor said the lower speed limit will make White Plains streets safer for pedestrians, cyclists and motorists.
Michael Woyton, Patch Staff
Posted Fri, Apr 26, 2024
In February, the White Plains Common Council determined that making roadways safer in the city is a top priority and approved an ordinance reducing the speed limit throughout White Plains from 30 to 25 mph.
Starting in May, the White Plains Transportation Department will begin the process of installing new signs indicating the new citywide 25 mph speed limit.
All city streets except for the following will see the changes:
Bryant Avenue
Central Avenue
Central Westchester Parkway
Mamaroneck Avenue
North Broadway
North Street
Old Mamaroneck Road
Tarrytown Road
Westchester Avenue
White Plains Avenue
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The speed limit has been 30 miles per hour (mph)? How could you tell? Today I walked along Bloomingdale Road, Mamaroneck Avenue, then Bryant Avenue. My guess is that pretty much every car was going way faster than 30 mph.
Not mentioned, so limited to 25 mph starting in May 2024:
Main Street
Hamilton Avenue
Martine Avenue
Maple Avenue
Post Road (south of North Broadway),
South Lexington
Bank Street
Lake Street.
I probably missed some other motor speedways.
White Plains needs a Pedestrian Commissioner. Sunday, June 13, 2010
It's obvious that neither the Traffic nor Public Safety Commissioners give a damn how pedestrian hostile White Plains becomes, so how about a Pedestrian Commissioner, someone who represents the interests of pedestrians? ...
The Traffic Commissioner has established non-intuitive rules such as cars being allowed to turn from other than the immediate lane, such as Main Street turning right onto Lexington Avenue where cars from the TWO right lanes may turn. The Public Safety Commissioner allows cars to get away with this trick even where it is not permitted ...
... neither the mayor nor the common council members do anything to make WP less pedestrian hostile.
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