<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><DIV aria-label="Compose body">I'd question the basis of PAT's 1960's claim. In the mid-60's Toronto had more trolleys - and probably track miles too - than Pittsburgh.</DIV>
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<DIV><BR></DIV>an ad in yesterday's City Paper from the Port Authority points out that<BR>Pittsburgh had the largest remaining trolley system in the US in the 1960s.<BR>
<DIV><BR></DIV>i find this ironic.<BR>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR>On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Bob Rathke <bobrathke@comcast.net> wrote:<BR>
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