Archive: Around Town

This coming weekend, the City of Ithaca plans to demolish the overhead bridges and helix portions of the Green Street parking facility. From the evening of Friday December 1, through all of Sunday, December 3, Green Street between Cayuga Street and the “tuning fork” intersection with State Street will be completely closed to traffic. Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (TCAT) buses will be detoured around the construction area and TCAT’s Green Street bus stops will be moved.

“Almost every TCAT route stops at Green Street. It’s one of our main downtown hubs, and many of our Friday night and weekend riders will be affected,” said Nancy Oltz, TCAT’s Manager of Operations and Maintenance.

TCAT buses that ordinarily wait for riders on Green Street alongside the Public Library will instead be located on South Cayuga Street between Green and Clinton – in front of the Holiday Inn. TCAT will post signs to direct riders to the temporary stops, said Oltz.

TCAT routes passing through downtown on their way to Cornell, Pyramid Mall, and many other destinations will be redirected onto South Cayuga, turning at East Clinton, continuing on Prospect (past the Ithaca Police Station) and making a left onto South Aurora. The traffic island at the intersection of Prospect and South Aurora has been temporarily removed by the City to allow buses and trucks a larger turning radius, and neighborhood traffic will be directed away from the intersection to reduce overall traffic volume.

Route 11, which runs between Ithaca College and the Commons, will be detoured around several blocks of Hudson Street, causing the bus stops at Prospect, Pleasant, and Columbia Streets to be relocated to the Hillview Place stop for the weekend.

The City is expecting Green Street to be reopened and all normal traffic patterns restored by early Monday morning, when the affected TCAT routes and bus stops will return to normal.

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