MORE Thoughts -- PRCo--2000 -- What Trolleycars Remain ed??

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

	I can certainly see a case developed for either side.  Don has pointed
out that the mall/rail concept works extremely well in Europe; it is not
that the same would not work here, it just would not be *accepted*
because of the auto bias - in addition to other factors.  Don't know
that a comprehensive assessment of various factors could be presented
here.
	As I was writing that the E. Liberty mall would have killed the
trolleycars, I was thinking how well the trolleycars could be integrated
into the mall.  But I remember the very-strong-dislike-for-trolleycars
by the public in general (certainly not all) and this would have
prevented their use in the E. Liberty mall.  Decisions concerning the
trolleycars were not practical - they were biased.
	And really, the trolleycar was dead.  With the last production in 1952
for SF, no cars were available to continue trolleycar lines.  At the
time of mall construction, anti-trolleycar-bias was extremely high,
trolleycar availability was essentially non-existant, current
trolleycars were old and needed replaced, so it seems that the odds
would favor discontinuing trolleycars.

Dietrich, Robert J. wrote:

> Since we are doing "What-if's" What if the streetcars were still running in
> East Liberty when they converted to a mall, don't you think they would have
> kept the streetcars and kept out the autos???

> Bob

> In a message dated 06/09/2000 7:21:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> pghpcc at pacbell.net writes:
> 
> << And with E. Liberty turned into a mall, that would have killed many car
>  lines there. >>

James B. Holland

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