Tuesday, October 21, 2008

TRANSPORTATION

I am not currentyly working in transportation. I put transportation down as my
industry because of the condition of transportation at this time. For eight years I
worked from Saturdays to Wednessdays at Ithaca College. Finding help on the weekends
was difficult due to the lack of transportation. The TCAT only runs certain scheduals. This presents difficulties for people living outside of Ithaca. I worked
a swing shift and there was no way I could travel to work with mass transit. I used
to go out of my way to take people home:Trumansburg,Enfield,you name it.My Grandfather Brotherton used to drive a bus for the Corona Typewriters. My Mon used to
go and meet him.The AARP has addressed the issue of establishing transportation
networks. When I was attending Corning Community College forty years ago gasoline was
twenty five cents a gallon and you could purchase a Rambler American for fifty dollars.Working the same shift helps with car pooling as well as well as increasing
the amount of parking places.

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