<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Fred Schneider <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fwschneider@comcast.net" target="_blank">fwschneider@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Yes but those are only gross generalizations. The problem is that many of those places that transit once served are dying because we have chosen to live in other places. "Otherwise, not much changed" is a gross simplification.<br>
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Wilkinsburg, for example, peaked at somewhere around 32,000 people after World War II. Today's number is half that. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>I had occasion to pass through part of Wilkinsburg Saturday. Having biked from the South Side I crossed the Rankin Bridge and was trying to get to Forbes and Braddock. After crossing the railroad at Woodstock Avenue, I cut up to Braddock Ave only to use Swissvale Avenue to Whitney and then pass under the railroad there.<br>
<br></div><div>Whitney east of the busway/railroad is at least tastefully boarded up and not burned out, but it's empty. West of the busway is better. The closer you get to Regent Square the better it is.<br><br><br></div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Plum Borough, for example, took a lot of what Penn Hills Borough lost. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>Technically Penn Hills is not a borough; It's a Home Rule Municipality, as is Monroeville. The vagaries of the PA Municipal Code are crazy. </div>
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