How did students get from State Collage PA to the Nearest Train Station in lets say 1920 or 1940s? - Trains Magazine

The free buses in State College loop around or across the university campus, called The Loop and The Link. The other routes are $1.25. A few years ago Penn State agreed to subsidize the campus busses at the request of the students. The Loop used to charge 35 cents. I happen to think that the free charge is one reason why the campus busses are so crowded. I also think that CATA doesn't have much incentive to run more busses, they're probably strapped for cash anyway. Most people who ride the other non-free lines use bus passes, so there's no reason to provide more frequent service to people who already paid. And there'll never be a shortage of new students, so future sales are pretty safe.

Crowding on the streets of State College does happen, in particular College Ave which bounds the unversity on the south. I can tell you though, after living in the area for a number of years, it doesn't feel like a big city to me. There is usually a big flux of students during the 15 minute breaks between classes throughout the day.

They are building more roads, like loops around parts of the town, to alleviate some of the traffic, and I-99 is being slowly compteted to connect to the outside world. There's been a lot of fighting about I-99 because they uncovered a big pile of pyritic rock at the point where the highway crosses over the Bald Eagle Ridge. The exposed rock is causing acidic runoff into local streams. PennDOT is trying to fix the problem.

I've never been to Ithaca NY, but I know that the main railroad in Ithaca was the Lehigh Valley. Perhaps their stations were influenced by PRR. The SPV rail atlas shows a DL&W branch in Ithaca. The PRR did have a line through Elmira to Sodus Point on Lake Ontario through the Finger Lakes, but that was some distance west of Ithaca.