A friend sent a 1945 photo of diagonal parking on Mamaroneck Avenue in White Plains. Click this link to view it and many other old photos of White Plains:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/frankc54/9695130997/in/album-72157627704995113/
That's how it is today in the village of Mamaroneck. But the City of White Plains long ago chose to switch to parallel parking so that it could squeeze in extra lanes.
Every other decade or so, the topic surfaces only to die like any idea about/for White Plains. Hence, the slow drift into compromise and mediocrity. Maybe the new task force meeting in secret will shock us with a transformational reinvention but that's highly unlikely, as time passes without any hint of even simple easy stuff like freeing the taxi cabs to allow them to provide rides to hailing pedestrians, you know, like the grownups do in the big city.
Or converting the many interstate highway like speedways back into local streets, with traffic going in both directions.
Can't the mayor or at least the Common Council just do that type of stuff without getting approval from the county, state, and intergalactic tribunals?
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