On Saturday, April 6, 2019 at 9:07:46 PM UTC-4, Peter T. Daniels wrote:   
      
   > Rail service to Ithaca ceased, I was told, the year before I started at   
   > Cornell, which was 1968. (It was an unpleasant 4 1/2 hour bus ride, with   
   > a rest stop in Binghamton. There was a little JFK Memorial across the   
   > street from the Binghamton bus station. Usually the driver would let   
   > students off at Collegetown, maybe a half mile walk from many of the   
   > dorms, rather than making us stay on to the bus depot, which was on the   
   > other side of town and necessitated a 25c cab ride back to campus.)   
      
   Would you know what railroad offered passenger service, and what   
   kind of service was offered (e.g. frequency)?   
      
   Why was the bus ride unpleasant--just the length of the trip?   
   The type of buses used?  The other passengers?   
      
   In the 1950s, Greyhound advertised extensively touting its   
   modern Scenicruisers and Highway Traveler buses, and its   
   nice service.   
      
   But in the 1960s, some films and books described a somewhat   
   different picture, such as many ex-convicts returning after   
   release, or people fleeing to avoid becoming a convict.   
      
   While I can understand the lack of economies of scale killing   
   off passenger train service, I am surprised that the intercity   
   bus has dried up so much.  I think Greyhound hasn't been doing   
   well, and the massive national network has contracted quite   
   a bit, though I'm not that up on this stuff.   
      
   As an aside, Amtrak uses buses a great deal as official feeder   
   routes to its trains, and provides connections to other buses.   
      
      
   Greyhound ad:   
   https://books.google.com/books?id=glYEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA121&dq=grey   
   ound%20scenicruiser&pg=PA121#v=onepage&q&f=false   
      
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