This morning walking to the supermarket in the City Center along Church Street I saw that Main Street was closed and there were several police cars. I asked an officer what had happened and he told me that a pedestrian had been struck and killed by a car.
In the middle of Main there was stuff, including a bag, on the ground suggesting that the accident was near Church Street rather than the T intersection of Main and Mamaroneck Avenue.
It's one of many messy intersections. Pedestrians often cross against the traffic light there. Cars on Mamaroneck Avenue must make a right onto one way Main and then a quick left to go onto Church Street.
Those usually/mostly empty and useless Hudsonlink buses on Main make a left onto narrow Church Street often with cars parked on the right side of Church, something allowed in recent years.
Could this death have been prevented with different policies? I don't know but walking in downtown White Plains should not be nearly as dangerous as it has been for decades.
Just yesterday a friend told me how different it was on her recent trip to seven countries in Europe. Cars cannot go everywhere and they go slowly. There are real bike lanes, not dangerous nonsensical ones that satisfy do-gooders.
Many Europeans take public transportation according to my friend. Here even the county Bee Line buses are rarely even half full. We can't all drive whenever we want, wherever we want. And we need to slow down.
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