Neither transmania (my word), nor transcenter (City of White Plains word) are real words but they reflect a couple of perspectives of the area around the train station.
I'd still like members of the Common Council to go from their homes to their meetings at city hall using public transportation; bonus points for returning that way, too. How about once just for the experience?
http://www.cityofwhiteplains.com/DocumentCenter/View/1576
That's a link to a document from the mayor's office dated October 29, 2015. Here's the full title:
MAYOR ROACH NAMES STAKEHOLDER TASK FORCE FOR
RE-DEVELOPMENT OF WHITE PLAINS TRANSCENTER
Group to Assist in Planning for Revitalized TransCenter Area
How many of you have heard about this?
It contains a bunch of stuff that sounds good. Read it for yourself. The task force has 13 members, several of whom represent the usual and expected interest groups:
- MTA (Metropolitan Transportation Authority): "a public benefit corporation responsible for public transportation in the U.S. state of New York, serving 12 counties in southeastern New York, along with two counties in southwestern Connecticut"
- Westchester County
- New York State
- developers
- bank
- real estate
- hospital (?)
- residents, none of whom seem to live downtown.
Absent are residents who live in downtown White Plains apartments. I checked the public property tax roll for some of the "residents" and they all seem to live in houses with not even a view of the transmania mess near the train station.
Apparently having such representation on this task force never even occurred to anyone. Why start now, right? White Plains is ruled and run by those residents who live in houses away from downtown. It's been that way for at least 50 years and will likely remain that way for another 50 years.
Hudson Yards and Battery Park City: should they be models for development around the White Plains train station? Friday, November 27, 2015
Why reinvent the wheel or simply issue building permits for ever more mundane, unrelated, unimaginative buildings?
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