Old PRCo route numbers-car requirements

Derrick J Brashear shadow at dementia.org
Tue Nov 23 11:30:24 EST 1999


On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, John Swindler wrote:

> see that today in Erie where EMTA runs extra buses over their routes to GE 
> plant at shift change, and SEPTA and Altoona put extra buses out as school 
> trippers.  When one looks at peak headways, cycle time, and vehicle 
> requirements, it doesn't make sense unless one knows the both the existence 
> and purpose of the extra trippers.

When I was in high school (not all that long ago) PAT still ran trippers
from my high school out to Highland Park, so it still happened here
recently

-D





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