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<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic">Fred</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic">Some points: </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic">1) By the methodology you used for other
routes, Rt 69 was a cutback of 68 so the ridership should have been included in
that line's figures.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic">2) Since when was 10/15 an East End
route!!!!????</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic">3) The really long East End routes did
have zone fares--don't know how you equate that, though, unless you have revenue
rather than ridership figures per route.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Century Gothic">Dwight</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=fwschneider@comcast.net href="mailto:fwschneider@comcast.net">Fred
Schneider</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org
href="mailto:pittsburgh-railways@mailman.dementix.org">Western PA Trolley
discussion</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, May 11, 2014 12:55 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [PRCo] Another guy
complaining...</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Another guy complaining because other routes have more service
than the route he uses. The link leads only to the editorial page;
you will have to scan down until you find the headline reading "Greenfield Car
Line Service Criticized."<BR><BR><A
href="http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mvUaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=40wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4977%2C2388619">http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mvUaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=40wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4977%2C2388619</A><BR><BR> And
now guys … the facts. Again we are bitching because another
line has more people riding and requires heavier service. The guy
complaining was riding the lightest hauling line coming up 4th Avenue so
wouldn't we expect the company to dispatch the least number of
cars? And wouldn't we expect the newspaper to print
something that would stir up the dirt? Sure as God made green apples …
because stirring the dirt sells papers. <BR><BR>The heaviest car
line on Fourth Avenue? … Route 68 had a weekday average load of
28,200. Of course that was influenced by summer weekdays at
Kennywood.<BR><BR>Second heaviest would be 55 East Pittsburgh via 2nd Avenue
and it's short turn, 57 Glenwood. The typical weekday load was about
25,000.<BR><BR>Third was route 56 McKeesport with a normal weekday volume of
about 22,000 riders.<BR><BR>O. M. G. … those three routes on 2nd Avenue added
up to more than PATCO was hauling between Philadelphia and Lindenwold in its
prime and they were running long trains in the rush hours!
<BR><BR>Fourth would be route 64 East Pittsburgh via Wilkinsburg and its short
turn 66 Wilkinsburg via Forbes. The two of them hauled almost
13,000 fares on weekdays.<BR><BR>Then we have route 67 to Rankin and Braddock
with 18,300 followed by the Carrick car he mentions with 18,100
fares.<BR><BR>Next to the lowest was 69 Squirrel Hill carried about
6800.<BR><BR>Finally, his line carried fewer than 6,500. One would
expect about 24 cars to come down 4th Avenue on other routes for every car on
this character's line.<BR><BR>Why? Because he lived on a line 5
miles long with the only population at the top of the hill near the outer end
of the line. The inner four miles was wedged in between the
B&O and the mills or in a ravine heading up the hill to Greenfield .. not
much there to stimulate riding from his 'hood. <BR><BR>And he
thinks a bus company would want to serve that 'hood? Maybe every
20 minutes then or every hour today.<BR><BR>Now guys … if you want to print
and save the story, it is attached as a old style word
file. And if you want the route data, also attached is
an Excel file showing all that information from the 1948 Lougee
study. I have added several addition columns to the basic
Lougee data.<BR><BR>One ranks the routes by the raw number of
passengers.<BR><BR>But just because we haul people doesn't mean we make
money. So I also added a column for passengers per route mile,
which is an important number when we are not charging zone fares.
And then an additional column ranking the routes according to passengers per
mile. <BR><BR>That shows that the heaviest routes are, as we
always understood, mostly those long East End lines like 88, 82, 87, 68,
77/54, 55, 56, 75, 94 and 10/15 in that order. But those that
hauled the most per mile were 22, 85, 88, 50, 82, 59, 44, 53, 94 (95) and 8 in
that order. You really didn't expect to see that Homestead -
Homeville shuttle, now did ya? Sixth heaviest on a car-mile basis.
<BR> <BR>Of course the worst routes were … well, you look at
it.<BR><BR>A third array of data I wish I had but have no way of calculating
would be passengers carried per car hour. Naturally it probably
would not be too impressive on routes like 55 and 88 where you are just
slogging along.<BR><BR>Nuff B. S.
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