obituary
Joseph Boardman ’74, Former Amtrak President and CEO, Dies at 70
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Former president and chief executive of Amtrak, Joseph H. Boardman ’74 — who ran the railway giant over a period of rapid growth — died of a stroke on March 7. He was 70.
The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/transportation/page/2/)
Former president and chief executive of Amtrak, Joseph H. Boardman ’74 — who ran the railway giant over a period of rapid growth — died of a stroke on March 7. He was 70.
Members of the Employee Assembly met Thursday to try and tackle Cornell’s “difficult to manage” parking system that leads to multiple spots being unused and certain spots being underutilized.
With Ithaca’s wind chill projected to reach as low as minus 21 degrees overnight, TCAT announced that the bus service will offer free rides for all routes on Thursday.
Two people filed complaints with Big Red Bullet in the last year, one of which resulted in the company terminating a bus driver, according to an email from the company obtained by The Sun.
The driver of the Ithaca-to-New-York-City bus that crashed, killing Rebecca Blanco M.B.A. ’17, told police that he “fell asleep at the wheel,” a Pennsylvania state trooper told The Sun on Wednesday.
A Transportation Department agency opened a compliance investigation into Big Red Bullet, the private charter bus company whose bus veered off a Pennsylvania highway Sunday, killing a Cornell alumna and crashing into several trees.
“The Urban Outfitters space is the most logical for the intercity buses by keeping the area west of the store open for TCAT buses,” TCAT Communications and Marketing Manager Patty Poist told The Sun in an email.
The company also promises special routes out of Ithaca over fall and Thanksgiving breaks that will include White Plains, Albany and Long Island in New York, Boston, Paramus, New Jersey and Stamford, Connecticut.
Cornell researchers, Prof. David Shmoys and Daniel Freund, Ph.D. ’18, have been working for over four years to help develop key innovations to improve the current bike programs in New York City.
The Ithaca Bus Terminal at 710 West State Street is currently scheduled to close its doors at the end of July and merge with the downtown Green Street Bus Station by the end of next month.