The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/transportation/page/2/)
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.
Representatives reflect on the E.A.’s weak exposure among employees and their opinions divided on what President Pollack’s response means to E.A.’s transportation plan.
The company will be adding completely new buses to its fleet, along with additional amenities that the company hopes will make its rides “more convenient and pleasurable.”
Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit announced early Friday morning that it had reached a tentative agreement with the United Auto Workers over contracts for its workers. The deal was the result of 17 consecutive hours of negotiations. Though the agreement — which specifies the salaries and benefits of all TCAT drivers and mechanics — still has to be formalized by the United Auto Workers on October 5, workers will continue to work under old contract conditions until the vote.
“Poor air quality, massive parking lots, traffic jams and delays are integral parts of life in many parts of the United Sates, but they don’t have to be a part of our future here,” said Bill Wendt, Cornell’s director of Transportation and Mail Services. Wendt’s optimism about Ithaca’s future can be attributed to the Transportation-Focused Generic Environmental Impact Statement released today, which examines the future of Ithaca’s transportation in light of presumed population growth in the next 10 years.