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I'm astounded you can take the bus from a rural area.

• PaulHoule 3y ago
  "Rural" can mean a lot of things. There are places like the Central Valley of California where you can drive a mile and it is all the same farm. There are places like Montana. I'm a mile from a state forest and own about 65 acres, and I'm about 2 miles from the bus stop which is at this (relatively) high density development https://www.google.com/maps/place/Boiceville+Cottages/@42.3877226,-76.3638141,726m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m15!1m8!3m7!1s0x89da7dd77f3514e5:0xc9ae9f6904f84308!2sBoiceville+Cottages!8m2!3d42.388832!4d-76.3599624!10e5!16s%2Fg%2F1ptxtk1zy!3m5!1s0x89da7dd77f3514e5:0xc9ae9f6904f84308!8m2!3d42.388832!4d-76.3599624!16s%2Fg%2F1ptxtk1zy?entry=ttu https://www.google.com/maps/place/Boiceville+Cottages/@42.38... there are also two small towns on the route, a subsidized housing project, and route 79 has a stretch of single family houses stacked two deep (roughly every other driveway goes to a house behind the house in front!) It helps that Tompkins County has one dominant employer (Cornell University) that pays for a bus pass for all faculty, staff and students. Bus service on a triangle between the downtown, Cornell and the mall is absolutely excellent. (15 minutes) If you work 9-5 at Cornell it is easy to get to outlying towns like Dryden, Trumansburg, Groton, Newfield, Danby, etc. There is also bus service to nearby state parks.
• bombcar 3y ago
  Rural busses are quite common, often ranging between "one trip into town a week" and "round trip daily/hourly". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRi2ACqZHCI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRi2ACqZHCI there are even songs about it. Often they stop at the small towns, so really rural people still have to walk to town, but from there they can get "to the big city".