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<DIV><FONT size=4>Fred</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>I don’t have a clue about the men in Hershey, unless they
consumed too much of the local product.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>The women in Hummelstown are perplexed because the last flood,
supposedly a 500 year episode, washed out the local railway bridge and they have
been cut off from Middletown for a couple of years. But not to worry, your Govt
to the rescue—the bridge is undergoing (maybe it is finished by now) a
multi-million dollar repair and the fair maidens will lament no
more.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>I just came back from a train trip that went over a similarly
Govt funded, restored bridge—in White Deer, Pa., but the expenditure was only a
paltry million USD.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Your tax dollars at work. Although I must admit I can
think of far worse uses for them.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>BTW, if one flies into Harrisburg (on commercial service),
whose airport is used?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Dwight</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=fwschneider@comcast.net
href="mailto:fwschneider@comcast.net">Fred Schneider</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, 24 April, 2014 21:07</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org
href="mailto:pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org">Western PA Trolley
discussion</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [PRCo] 9/5/65 - Last day for PAT trolley
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men in Hershey and women in Hummelstown is perplexing.
Why?<BR><BR>Older versus younger might represent a change in how some state or
federal government agencies awarded parking spaces. <BR><BR><BR><BR>On Apr
24, 2014, at 6:58 PM, John Swindler wrote:<BR><BR>> <BR>> <BR>> When I
first started riding the 7:20 am Hershey bus to Harrisburg around 2000,
ridership never exceeded 6 during first year, and occasionally I was the only
rider. After 5-6 years, a 40 foot bus was assigned when ridership
routinely exceeded 20. By 2010, a third bus was added to the schedule to
alleviate overcrowding.<BR>> <BR>> About the only constant for a dozen
years was that I rode this bus. There was constant change in the
ridership. For a few years it was mostly women. Then for a few years
mostly men. Then switched back to women. At the end, men tended to
board in Hershey, while the women boarded in Hummelstown. Even the age of
riders fluctuated. Older riders in early years. A lot of young
people at the end. <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>>
<BR>>> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 18:26:03 -0400<BR>>> From:
shadow@dementix.org<BR>>> To:
pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org<BR>>> Subject: Re: [PRCo] 9/5/65
- Last day for PAT trolley lines<BR>>> <BR>>> On Thu, Apr 24, 2014
at 5:44 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider@comcast.net>wrote:<BR>>>
<BR>>>> Unduplicated route miles in Toronto after the Bloor subway
opened might<BR>>>> have been around 40ish. At that time
Pittsburgh was still running to<BR>>>> McKeesport, Drake, Library, West
View. Millvale and the West End One of my<BR>>>> favorite
examples is a comparison of two almost identical cities …<BR>>>>
Harrisburg, Pa. and Victoria, BC. Both have populations on the same
order<BR>>>> of magnitude but the Canadian city has ten times more bus
riders than the<BR>>>> Pennsylvania city … 150,000 on a weekday in
Victoria versus 15,000 in<BR>>>> Harrisburg. You stand on
the main streets in downtown Victoria in the<BR>>>> rush hour and you
see buses swallowing up crowds of people. I did that in<BR>>>>
2007. Harrisburg? Why would I humble myself to ride a
bus? I own a car.<BR>>>> <BR>>>> <BR>>> Why
would I do either? my bike certainly took me from Camp Hill to the<BR>>>
Eisenhower Interchange and back easily enough ;)<BR>>> <BR>>>
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