Specifically, he is looking for expanded bus service from Rockland County, Manhattan and Queens. There appears to be a lot of commuters coming from Queens to work in the lower Hudson Valley. There are several other ways to make the daily commute easier. These include state subsidies for leasing vans, new incentive pricing schemes to reduce traffic on the Tappan Zee Bridge and expanded use of flex-time work schedules. The great volume of traffic on area highways is a drag on economic growth in the region.
Traffic congestion is one negative against a whole bunch of positives.
You want to get to work without a lot of stress. In recent years, there has been a willingness to try new things to move commuters around the region. One of the experiments is the I-Bus, an express service than runs from Stamford to White Plains. In its first two years, it has taken more than 100,000 riders between the two cities. It has met the expectations of David Lee, general manager of Connecticut Transit, which runs the bus line.