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TCAT Service Cuts Disrupt Commutes
By JIMMY JORDAN and SOFIA RUBINSON
Voice Reporter and Sun News Editor
Over the last few years, the regular bus passengers of Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit have had to contend with reduced service levels due to the COVID-19 pandemic and staffing challenges that the bus company has faced.
The most impacted populations include people with incomes too low to afford a personal car and students at the local colleges. For many residents of Tompkins County and the City of Ithaca, TCAT buses are the primary mode of transportation, and the availability of a bus route and its frequency can end up determining much more about their life than who did not want to be identified by her last name, shared with The Ithaca Voice and The Sun that TCAT’s major service cuts in August last year removed later night bus runs she relied on to get to and from work, subsequently forcing her to change jobs. finally made their relationship official on March 15, 1989, about seven months after they first met. They remember spending good times together around the falls in Ithaca and near Mr.
“We used to like to go to the bridge behind the engineering quad,
But like his parents, Matthew Cimini met his soon-to-be wife, Sarah Dickerman ’19, on one of the first days of his freshman year. They both lived in Clara Dickson Hall and were part of a friend group of 12 people that remained together throughout college.
Four years after graduating from Cornell, the couple is set to get married this May. Within their Dickson friend group, there are two engaged couples and one married couple.
