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==Transportation== In 2013, the State College MSA ranked as the fifteenth lowest in the United States for percentage of workers who commuted by private automobile (79.2 percent). During the same year, 9.9 percent of State College area commuters walked to work.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/publications/2015/acs/acs-32.pdf |title= Who Drives to Work? Commuting by Automobile in the United States: 2013 |series= American Survey Reports |access-date= December 26, 2017 |date= August 2015 |author= McKenzie, Brian}}</ref> ===Rail=== In 1892, the [[Bellefonte Central Railroad]] extended its tracks from [[Struble, Pennsylvania|Struble]] to a new station in the West End of State College.<ref name="rail">{{cite web|first= Micheal|last= Bezilla|title= Bellefonte Central Railroad|publisher= Centre County Historical Society|date= May 20, 2021|url= https://centrehistory.org/article/bellefonte-central-railroad/#:~:text=For%20more%20than%20five%20decades%2C%20the%20railroad,northwest%20of%20State%20College%20to%20Bellefonte%20Furnace.}}</ref> State College was initially connected to Bellefonte via [[Waddle, Pennsylvania|Waddle]] through the [[Scotia Barrens]] and [[Buffalo Run Valley]].<ref name="rl">{{cite web|title= Local Historia: All Aboard for Penn State!|url= https://www.statecollege.com/articles/community/local-historia-all-aboard-for-penn-state/|first= Dustin|last= Elder|publisher= StateCollege.com|date= December 28, 2024}}</ref> In 1896, State College would be connected to [[Pine Grove Mills, Pennsylvania|Pine Grove Mills]] via Struble and Bloomsdorf. In 1930, the Fairbrook Branch was finished connecting State College to [[Fairbrook, Pennsylvania|Fairbrook]], [[Tyrone, Pennsylvania|Tyrone]], and Altoona. The tracks were abandoned in 1976.<ref name="rail"/> ===Busses=== [[File:CATA bus stop.jpg|thumb|CATA [[bus stop]] on Easterly Parkway near Pugh Street on the Game Day Shuttle route]] [[Centre Area Transportation Authority]] provides local bus service with fixed routes between the borough and the surrounding townships [[College Township, Pennsylvania|College]], [[Ferguson Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania|Ferguson]], and [[Patton Township, Pennsylvania|Patton Township]];<ref>{{cite web|publisher= Centre Area Transportation Authority|title= Route Map|url= https://catabus.com/system-map/}}</ref> and [[Demand-responsive transport|on-demand routes]] for [[Harris Township, Pennsylvania|Harris Township]].<ref>{{cite web|publisher= Centre Area Transportation Authority|url= https://catabus.com/go/|title= CATAGO!}}</ref> [[Fullington Trailways]], [[Greyhound Lines]], [[Megabus (North America)|Megabus]], and [[OurBus]] provide inter-city bus service. ===Roads=== Highways include: * [[U.S. Route 322 Business (State College, Pennsylvania)|U.S. Route 322 Business]] * [[Pennsylvania Route 26]] ===Airports=== The borough is also served by [[State College Regional Airport]] with daily flights to [[Chicago O'Hare International Airport|Chicago]], [[Philadelphia International Airport|Philadelphia]], and [[Washington Dulles International Airport|Washington-Dulles]].
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