Cornell, Ithaca Studies Alternative Transportation

As the Cornell community expands, transportation problems pose an inevitable challenge. It was this challenge that prompted Cornell Transportation Services and the Town of Ithaca to initiate a transportation-focused Generic Environmental Impact Statement three years ago. In December, the t-GEIS team will submit the statement to Ithaca for an adequacy review and eventually for public comment.

According to the t-GEIS website, the statement was meant to “to identify, examine and evaluate the transportation-related impacts on the surrounding community of hypothetical population growth at Cornell University over the next ten years.

The website also stated that the statement will explore possible mitigations to these impacts.