<div dir="ltr">Based on the two pictures, first of all. Secondly my knowledge, from 30+ years of operating them in real-world situations, of the construction of a bus versus a PCC trolley.<br><br> Remember February, 1976 on the South PATway? Not much remaining of the left front and side of the bus but hardly any damage to the trolley. Six killed on the bus. I reduced an auto to one-half its width on Warrington Avenue while the PCC I was operating sustained a cracked (not broken) glass in the first leaf of the number-one door and a couple of scratches in the paint. . An auto came from the far right lane of Grant Street (southbound) and made a left turn in front of my also southbound trolley at 1st Avenue. The guy waited until I was even with him then turned in front of the trolley. I never knew a set of dual headlamps could fly that far up into the atmosphere with no visible means of propulsion. When the dust settled the auto was reduced to scrap and the PCC had a paint scratch on the anticlimber. <br>
<br>Buses, and autos, are tin-can stock compared to the steel on a PCC. It doesn't take a lot of charts, graphs and baffling double-talk to figure this out.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 6:12 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">
Based on what statistics?<br>
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On May 1, 2014, at 5:21 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:<br>
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> SEPTA buses don't fare as well as SEPTA PCC cars.<br>
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> On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Fred Schneider <<a href="mailto:fwschneider@comcast.net">fwschneider@comcast.net</a>>wrote:<br>
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>> Could it be called suicide?<br>
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>> The nicest thing in our local paper today was the lady and her male friend<br>
>> who were out riding their bicycles. An elderly man made a left turn into<br>
>> the lady's bike … guess he never saw her when he drove into her. But the<br>
>> guy she was riding with had a video cam on his bike and it was turned on.<br>
>> The newspaper shows a frame from the video of the guy running into the<br>
>> bike. Kind of makes who was guilty irrefutable.<br>
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>> Now the punch line. I am eating lunch in my favorite Chinese restaurant.<br>
>> The owner of the restaurant has sort of become my adopted sister. (Like<br>
>> one of the things she told me today was to put June 15th on the calendar<br>
>> because she is taking my wife and me to Philadelphia for our anniversary<br>
>> dinner). Nice to have adopted family. Well, at any rate, Ms. Koo is<br>
>> reading my newspaper and is hurt by the fact that the lady cyclist is one<br>
>> of her customers. The sucking sound is the bad aspects of life…...<br>
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>> On May 1, 2014, at 2:00 PM, D Brashear wrote:<br>
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>>> Complete with a pic of the front end of a PCC that's been hit by a car.<br>
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