City planning commissioner Gomez seems to think that's a good thing. I think it's probably a bad thing.
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As documented here in many posts downtown White Plains is already overrun by big buses that have few, if any, passengers. Buses coming over the new bridge will head to White Plains only because the new bridge is not designed to let them easily go to an MTA Hudson line train station. So the next best thing is to have the buses drive on Interstate Highway 287 towards White Plains.
My issue is why have those buses go all the way into residential downtown? Why not have them terminate in one of those supposedly obsolete corporate parks, then disperse passengers using the county bus system, the Bee-Line.
My guess is that a very high percentage of rush hour passengers from across the river will go from the bus directly onto the MTA train at the White Plains train station and into Manhattan. White Plains will get more congestion and pollution but no benefit.
It's like permitting passersby to use your bathroom. Maybe nice for them but not nice for you.
It's the underlying problem that's being ignored in the redesign of the train station area: buses. It's a big bus depot now and it will only get worse. That area will be the arm pit of downtown. The City is trying to put lipstick on a pig.
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