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<DIV><FONT size=4>Same thing happened over a number of years on the South
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Back in “the day” ridership into the Loop was predominately
male. In recent years has been predominately female.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>I understand the female cohort. But this begs the
question: where are the males employed? Or aren’t they?</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=j_swindler@hotmail.com
href="mailto:j_swindler@hotmail.com">John Swindler</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, 25 April, 2014 23:28</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
lines</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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the lesson is that the people constituting a systems ridership is not
constant. If 12,000 rode daily last year, and 12,000 rode daily this year,
it's not the same 12,000 persons. Some ride for a few months. Some
for a few years. And a few for many years.<BR> <BR><BR> <BR>>
From: dwightlong@verizon.net<BR>> To:
pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org<BR>> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 23:07:27
-0400<BR>> Subject: Re: [PRCo] 9/5/65 - Last day for PAT trolley
lines<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Fred<BR>> <BR>> I don’t have a clue about
the men in Hershey, unless they consumed too much of the local product.<BR>>
<BR>> 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.<BR>>
<BR>> 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.<BR>> <BR>> Your tax dollars at work. Although I
must admit I can think of far worse uses for them.<BR>> <BR>> BTW, if one
flies into Harrisburg (on commercial service), whose airport is used?<BR>>
<BR>> Dwight<BR>> <BR>> From: Fred Schneider <BR>> Sent: Thursday,
24 April, 2014 21:07<BR>> To: Western PA Trolley discussion <BR>> Subject:
Re: [PRCo] 9/5/65 - Last day for PAT trolley lines<BR>> The 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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