WHITE PLAINS COMPREHENSIVE TRANSPORTATION PLAN

White Plains, New York, a city being transformed into a major commercial center, aims to sustain both economic growth and vitality and its residential character. This study centers around the City's recognition that convenient and attrative access to and within the city by rail, bus, and foot is essential for growth, and traffic movements must be reduced to provide the quality of life desired by the citizens. The objective of this study is to prepare a Comprehensive Transportation Plan that the City can put into motion immediately and can use as a guide to future developments. This Plan beefs up such a recognition for sustained growth. It complements earlier efforts in that it focuses on all modes of transportation, emphasizes early action, and includes proposals designed to improve urban life. This report shows how the City can better existing resources to improve mobility and reduce congestion; how traffic and transit engineering techniques can rationalize the street and parking system, encourage bus and train ridership, and contribute to a more pleasant urban environment. Overall, the study was designed to be performed in close cooperation with public agencies and the impacted community. The emergent plans and proposals are intended to be operationally practical and to reflect community consensus (dialogue) rather than data collection and impersonal technical analysis.

• Corporate Authors:

  DMJM Architects and Engineers

  65 Red Oak Lane
  White Plains, NY  United States  10604

  Urban Mass Transportation Administration

  400 7th Street, SW
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Publication Date: 1983-8

Media Info

• Pagination: 93 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Central business districts; Medium sized cities; Multimodal transportation; Pedestrians; Public participation; Public transit; Traffic engineering; Transportation planning; Urban development; Urban transportation
• Geographic Terms: New York (State)
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Pedestrians and Bicyclists; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Society; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00394465
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: UMTA-NY-06-0064-84 Final Rpt.
• Contract Numbers: UMTA-NY-06-0064
• Files: TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: May 31 1985 12:00AM