<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><base href="x-msg://21/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Patty Poist <<a href="mailto:pp1@tcatmail.com">pp1@tcatmail.com</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Dump the Pump on Thursday June 18; Use TCAT or other alternative transportation</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">June 12, 2015 5:46:15 PM EDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"<a href="mailto:tc-hsc-l@cornell.edu">tc-hsc-l@cornell.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:tc-hsc-l@cornell.edu">tc-hsc-l@cornell.edu</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Patty Poist <<a href="mailto:pp1@tcatmail.com">pp1@tcatmail.com</a>><br></span></div><br><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="position: absolute; z-index: 251658240; margin-left: 468px; margin-top: 66px; width: 180px; height: 132px; "><img width="180" height="132" alt="Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit, Inc.
737 Willow Ave
Ithaca NY 14850
Tel: (607) 277-7433
Fax: (607) 277-9551
" v:shapes="_x0000_s1026" id="e705ef99-d749-4215-9c2e-c55a90068204" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:image002.png@01D0A537.AD6E0F80"></span><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; "><img width="141" height="66" id="Picture_x0020_1" alt="Full TCAT logo cat right 2007" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:image003.jpg@01D0A537.AD6E0F80"></span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size: 16pt; "><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><i>Press Release<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><i>For Immediate Release<o:p></o:p></i></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">June 12, 2015<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Contact: Patty Poist<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Communications and Marketing Manager<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">(607) 277‑9388 ext. 560<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center; line-height: 32px; "><b> </b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center; "><b>Win Free TCAT passes on “Dump the Pump” Day with “a selfie” Thurs. 6/18<o:p></o:p></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center; "><b>Also that day, check out the 2015 Tompkins County Commuter Challenge<o:p></o:p></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-align: center; "><b> </b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">In honor of the 10<sup>th</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Annual National Dump the Pump Day all day Thurs., June 18, TCAT is inviting passengers and send “selfies” or photos of yourself using the bus or standing beside a non-moving bus in a safe location. The most creative will win free bus passes.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">National Dump the Pump Day is sponsored by the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) to encourage people to park their cars, and instead ride public transit or use other alternative transportation.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">TCAT will accept “selfies” via email at<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:tcat@tcatmail.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">tcat@tcatmail.com</a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Or you can post them on TCAT’s Facebook group: EverythingTCAT. (TCAT asks that in taking your photo that you be considerate of your fellow passengers and to not distract the operator driving the bus.) The most original winner, to be judged by a panel of TCAT employees, will receive an annual TCAT T<i>card</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>pass valued at $600 (Zone 2 which is good for use throughout Tompkins County). The runner up will receive a monthly pass, valued at $60 (Zone 2). All others will be entered in a drawing for 10 one‑day (Zone 2) passes, valued at $4 each. (Deadline is 2:30 a.m. Fri., June 19 when TCAT’s service period ends for that day).<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">“The world’s smartest people ride TCAT, along with their smartphones,” said H. Roger Segelken, a charter member of TCAT’s Citizens Advisory Committee, who came up with the idea for a “selfies” contest. The committee is a group of TCAT riders who provide input and suggestions to TCAT.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">In addition, Gary Cremeens from Cornell University Transportation Services will be at several bus stops on “Dump the Pump” day promoting the 2015 Tompkins County Commuter Challenge<a href="http://www.tccommuterchallenge.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">http://www.tccommuterchallenge.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Cremeens helped create the commuter challenge with Norma Gutierrez from Way2Go, a program of Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County, whose aim is to provide information about alternative transportation.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Residents are urged to sign up and log her or his use of alternative transportation to include transit, biking, and ridesharing through<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://Zimride.com/Tompkins" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">Zimride.com/Tompkins</a>, Ithaca Carshare or carpooling. At the end of the year, those with the highest score can win prizes such as a round trip ticket to New York City on the Campus-to-Campus bus.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">“This is a great opportunity to encourage people to take transit and save money at not just the pump, but wear and tear on their vehicle,” Cremeens said. “The IRS standard mileage rate that accounts for all factors in operating a vehicle is 57.5 cents a mile, for a 10‑mile roundtrip commute, that is over $11.00.”<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="color: red; "> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">In addition, APTA estimates that the average household can save more than $9,000 a year by leaving your car at home! To calculate your individual savings, with or without car ownership, go to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.publictransportation.org" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">www.publictransportation.org</a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; "> </span></b></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; ">TCAT, Inc. (Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit, Inc.) is a not-for-profit corporation that provides public transportation for Tompkins County. TCAT’s annual ridership is approximately 4.3 million annual trips, covering a distance of about 1.6 million miles. The fleet of approximately 50 buses currently includes 8 hybrid electric-diesel buses. TCAT also offers ADA Paratransit services via a contract with Gadabout Transportation Services. For more information about TCAT, please visit<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.tcatbus.com" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline; ">www.tcatbus.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>or call (607) 277-RIDE. Twitter: TCATrides. 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