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Subject: Re: TEA  --  Historic  Lines
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In a message dated 03/18/2000 1:21:27 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
SaturnV@webtv.net writes:

<< HrB suggests...using PTM as a staging area for both storage and
 maintenance, funding may well allow for additional sheds, expansion of
 the museum's own yard trackage, and a rebuild of the old  right-of-way
 from PTM on into Washington, PA.  >>

You could also go the other way, north, to a connection with PATransit at 
South Hills Village via the Drake Loop and now unused Drake line. This would 
also provide a 'commuter use' for the project inasmuch as automobile traffic 
could be reduced from Washington County to Allegheny County. I believe most 
of the right of way still exists except for small sections in Cannonsburg and 
the area called Glen Cannon where Ryan Homes, Inc. built a new subdivision in 
the early 1970s. Wouldn't John Dameron be proud of us!

<<those who are presently "removing history" from the city at
an alarming rate and renovating in hopes of attracting new business.>>

I knew, back in 1978, when they started changing the traffic signals from the 
"only in Pittsburgh" system of green, to yellow over green, to yellow, to 
red, that they would never stop until they had ruined the city.

<<all this modernization being effected to counter an increasing number
of people and business's leaving the city on an annual basis>>

By 1986 I had seen enough of the city's historic things, those things which 
made Pittsburgh stand out from any other city in the country, disappear, that 
I too left for other parts of the country.

HrB 
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