It's pretty basic common sense stuff. If you want to increase traffic to and near the Transmania train station and bus depot complex, continue to do what the City of White Plains seems compelled to do:
- establish and maintain massive multi-lane high speed roads
- build and maintain massive parking structures
- encourage and/or allow a sudden massive influx of buses to invade downtown with apparently no restrictions, oversight or even awareness.
Oh, wait. The buses are some rocket scientist's idea for reducing traffic. Yeah, that might seem to make sense in the abstract but here on planet Earth, Westchester County, people middle class and up wouldn't be caught dead on a bus. It's not at all like Manhattan.
On the other hand, if you reduced parking, such as by demolishing the municipal parking garage, then people would naturally figure out other ways to get to the Transmania. Why not let them, instead of bureaucrats, elected officials and consultants pretending to do that? Commuters might then demand stuff like Uber, buses that work for buildings and neighborhoods, whatever. Or they could simply ride the current buses. Those buses are almost empty almost all the time in White Plains. Of course, the buses might then need to run at times when people actually need them.
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