![]() ![]() "Many small studies have been conducted in the region and the state, and data have been collected by citizens and municipalities for years," said Manley. The project will be overseen by Linda Haas Manley, program coordinator for CIPA's Public Service Exchange, a service-learning partnership for nonprofit and government agencies.Ĭornell graduate students enrolled in two city and regional planning courses - Quantitative Techniques for Policy Analysis and Program Management, taught by CIPA Director David Lewis, and Approaches to Consulting, Research, Evaluation and Program Development, taught by Haas Manley - will conduct the study. "These roads and routes were never intended for this type of heavy-duty, steady flow of truck traffic," said Pam Mackesey, a Tompkins County legislator and member of the Upstate Citizens Safety Task Force, a group that has asked for assistance from the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA).ĬIPA will conduct a research study on the impact of heavy trucks transporting garbage along New York State Route 89, which runs north-south along the western shore of Cayuga Lake, focusing specifically on the stretch between Taughannock Falls State Park and Cass Park. To save tolls and time, and to bypass safety and weight inspections, scores of the trucks leave interstate highways each day to use two-lane roads in Tompkins County. ![]() ![]() Every day, hundreds of 18-wheel garbage-transfer trucks from New York City and other large cities carry garbage to the Seneca Meadows Landfill in Waterloo, N.Y. ![]()
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