Huge buses with few passengers increase pollution, congestion.

Hudson Link buses still have ZERO passengers in White Plains, NY. Other buses have a very low percentage of seats occupied, including:

Westchester County Bee-Line
Coach (allowed by city to park illegally adjacent to mini mall)
Adirondack Trailways
Greyhound
CT Transit (Connecticut)
Leprichaun
TappanZeezpress (Rockland County, NY)
Private

Bus categories violating downtown, in case any city officials care. Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Quality of life is an alien concept here. Decision makers think or pretend to think that the ever increasing number of huge buses rumbling through downtown White Plains are improving things. But the only way that could possibly be is if people were riding on these buses and even then it's doubtful. Passengers would simply be connecting to the Metro North train into Manhattan. Maybe that's good for the region overall but it's zero benefit to White Plains other than to make its Common Council members feel important.

Do all those new buses at least reduce the number of cars in White Plains? Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Casual observations:
- the number of cars seems at least as many as a couple of years ago before the buses increased dramatically in numbers, size and variety (county, regional, private)
- the buses seem to have a very low percentage of their seats occupied by passengers...

Since the regional planning was not convinced by Westchester County to implement light rail along Interstate 287, White Plains, which did not sufficiently influence the county on this, is now increasingly burdened with absurd bus traffic with little or no benefit to the city, especially those residents who live downtown.

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Hail a bus. Hey, they have plenty of empty seats. Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Ralph Kramden for County Executive. Friday, July 15, 2016

Bus commissioner? Tuesday, July 12, 2016

Who the heck is in charge? Neither Westchester County nor the City of White Plains seems to have a responsible adult who knows why downtown White Plains is inundated with buses (public and private), many of which have taken to residential streets near the train station - bus depot area.

Many, maybe most, of these buses have either no passengers or hardly any passengers, which makes an inquiring mind wonder what the heck is actually going on. Is there any oversight? For the county Bee-Line bus system, who, if anyone, knows how and why our tax money is being spent?
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Link to other posts about the bus mess in White Plains:

https://white-plains-ny.blogspot.com/search/label/Buses