Regional buses: percent of seats occupied, percent of passengers who merely board a train?

Those are two simple common sense questions that Mayor Tom Roach and traffic commissioner Tom Soyk should answer.

Some of the regional bus companies that drive to the White Plains train station:
Coach (allowed by city to park illegally adjacent to mini mall)
Adirondack Trailways
Greyhound
CT Transit (Connecticut)
Leprichaun
TappanZeezpress (Rockland County, NY)

Along with:
Afternoon rush hour traffic on Hamilton Avenue: where are all those vehicles coming from and going to?

Finally, the BIG common sense question:

How does any of this benefit White Plains, especially downtown?

Bus battle: Westchester pushes back against Tarrytown express bus
Matt Coyne, mcoyne@lohud.com Published 6:30 p.m. ET April 12, 2018

"Where are you going here?" said Assemblyman Tom Abinanti, D-Greenburgh. "Tarrytown doesn't need those buses. They do nothing for Tarrytown besides create havoc and put people in danger." ...

Original plans for the bus system, now being branded the Hudson Link instead of the wordier Lower Hudson Transit Link, saw Metro-North-bound Rocklanders ferried to the White Plains TransCenter instead of Tarrytown.
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Mayor Tom Roach: "bring an east-west bus rapid transit system to Westchester County" Wednesday, August 30, 2017

... those HUGE regional buses barge into downtown White Plains and drive along multiple residential streets, including North Broadway, Barker Avenue, Park Avenue and most recently Grant Avenue. Regional buses going to and from the train station are facilitating transportation through White Plains but those passengers are not staying in White Plains, not even long enough to shop in a department store. How does that benefit White Plains?

Plus, the 287 corporate parks have fleets of local private buses taking workers to/from the train station and the 287 offices. White Plains gets some benefit from corporate tax paid to White Plains. See Leros, "33 Westchester Avenue".
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