WPCNR MR. & MRS. & MS. WHITE PLAINS VOICE. November 11, 2005: A WPCNR reader does not mind the speed bumps in the City Center Garage:

Reply to The Bumpity-Bump:

As someone who has lived in and worked in White Plains for the past ten years.  I applaud the use of speed bumps in the City Center garage and encourage more enforcement of speed limits in all parking garages in White Plains.  Parking garages are the last place that we need people driving at excessive speeds.  I am always amazed at the recklessness of many drivers in the parking structures in White Plains. 

 High volume traffic and confined parking quarters, combined with pedestrian traffic do not mix with high speeds.  It''s enough that we have to deal with people running red lights and speaking on their cell phones on the roads.  It''s not going to kill you to if it takes an extra 30 seconds to get out of the City Center, but you may kill someone else in your haste.  Take the extra 30 seconds, look around and enjoy the renaissance of our great city.

Jonathan Young

White Plains

A Reader Disagrees....

Your reader that wrote in favor of the new speed bumps at the City Center
has the right heart but the wrong logic.

I drive the garage everyday. I've parked there since it was built, and also
in the garage it replaced.  Yes, people do drive hastily through the City
Center garage. It's the one thing that keeps outbound traffic from being
hellish.

BUT, the new speed bumps were not placed where people speed. They were
stupidly placed at the exit (choke points) where people slow down anyway--
near the garage office, and at a turn near the So. Broadway entrance.

Now, let's use common sense-- if you slow people down near the exits, all
you do is back up traffic for the entire garage.

The people who speed in the garage zip down the straightaways of the ramps.
This is where the speedbumps SHOULD be-- where they would insure safety but
hardly affect the outflow of cars.

Holiday traffic from City Center will prove me right. Your reader who favors
slowdowns will be cursing the current speedbump placement in due time.

In that location, they're about as useful as those new "Look!" signs painted
on the ground at streetcorners...which try to mimick London's. They only use
them for tourists who aren't aware they drive on the left side of the road.
Why do we need them in White Plains?

Another stupid move, courtesy of White Plains Planning.

J Manzini Sr.