Plague: bicycle riding on streets? Will the Martine Avenue bicycle lane draw riders when it finally opens?

Shouldn't we see lots of people riding bicycles on the streets of downtown White Plains? Lots of people? Is anyone seeing that? Why aren't Common Council members riding their bicycles now on public streets during the pandemic? And the county executive? Maybe over to the County Center to view the empty pseudo hospital recently created at considerable expense.

The city is completing what appears to be an expensive bicycle lane on high speed Martine Avenue from South Lexington at the northeast corner of the public safety building, past the entry/exit to underground parking, past the expensively upgraded library grounds (still with its extra car drop off lane), across Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., past the county office building to ... Court Street. And, of course, opposite the remaining four lanes of one way traffic all the way is the ever dangerous Galleria parking garage with its multiple entrances. Yeah, can't wait to defy death by riding along that. And for what purpose? Going from where to where to do what?

There's a barrier to protect the bicycle riders, just not where vehicles cross the bike lane. That should protect them from county Bee-Line buses, which have some passengers, and Hudson Link buses, which usually (always during the pandemic) have zero passengers. Multiple lanes of cars crossing diagonally to enter the Galleria parking garage are another matter.

Let's look for Common Council members riding their bicycles on this new bicycle lane.