[PRCo] Re: Add this to "Swindler's List" of "Engineers - a strange lot.. .."

[John Swindler]

Thanks, Bob, but I took it with sense of humor.  By the way, Bob, has Stan 
Bowman mentioned the results of our recent search for 'used concrete' out 
your way???

The newspaper readings have been slow of late.  Having trouble getting back 
before 1894.  Maybe will pick up a bit after April 15th.  And then onto what 
we missed in the Connellsville Courier.

Update on Fred the third.  Was not in too good a shape Saturday afternoon, 
but was ready to argue with nurses and kitchen staff Sunday evening (this a 
sign that he's feeling better).  Must have changed his pain medicine.

John


>From: "Dietrich, Robert J." <bob.dietrich at unisys.com>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: "'tsquare at toad.net'" <tsquare at toad.net>,   Fred W Schneider III  
><fschnei at supernet.com>,   PRCo Group <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>,   
>Ed Lybarger <twg at pulsenet.com>, Jim Holland <pghpcc at pacbell.net>,   
>"Dietrich, Robert J." <bob.dietrich at unisys.com>,   "Derrick J. Brashear"  
><owner-pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>,   Ed Amrhein <MAmrhein at aol.com>
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Add this to "Swindler's List" of "Engineers - a strange 
>lot.. .."
>Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 07:40:53 -0400
>
>
>Folks:
>
>I'm a little miffed by this memo.  Tom, you're not really taking a shot at
>John are you???  You have to understand that he really wants to be a good
>public servant, they just don't let him :).  Why else would he do all that
>research of old newspapers etc. for us?
>
>Then we learn that Vehicle Miles Traveled, mostly by gas guzzling SUVs, is
>down in 2000 because people are staying home to watch Survivor and
>Millionaire.  What is the point???
>
>Bob Dietrich
>
>  -----Original Message-----
>From: 	tsquare at toad.net [mailto:tsquare at toad.net]
>Sent:	Monday, April 02, 2001 6:38 PM
>To:	Fred W Schneider III; PRCo Group; Ed Lybarger; Jim Holland; Robert
>J. Dietrich; Derrick J. Brashear; Ed Amrhein; Derrick J. Brashear
>Subject:	Add this to "Swindler's List" of "Engineers - a strange
>lot...."
>
>On 4/2 at 1021 AM, John Swindler wrote "Engineers - a strange lot...."
>and followed up before the ink was dry at 2:45 PM with the following
>which was excerpted from his very good and on-going "Transit news":
>
>Just what you might expect from a bunch of Gummit Bureaucrats.  Take a
>whole bunch of variables, multiply them together,, average out the
>product by dividing by the number of sources, and round everything off
>to the third decimal place!
>
>There is no way on the face of this earth to make a determination like
>this.  Sometimes the flaw is not with the Engineers but from those who
>would assume to be Engineers!  And for this the taxpayers pay and pay
>and pay...
>
>Tom Phillips
>
>
>
>Vehicle Miles Traveled Drops for the First Time in Two Decades
>
>The Federal Highway Administration recently released statistics showing 
>that
>the number of vehicle miles traveled in the U.S. declined during 2000-the
>first drop in 20 years.
>
>Last year, VMT dropped 0.11 percent below that of 1999.
>
>FHWA noted that the downward trend in driving is unusual. VMT has been
>steadily increasing at an annual rate of about 3 percent between 1980 and
>1999. The last decline, 0.12 percent, occurred between 1979 and 1980.
>
>The FHWA's Traffic Volume Trends estimate reports 2.688 trillion vehicle
>miles traveled in 2000, compared with 2.691 trillion miles traveled in 
>1999.
>VMT for December 2000 totaled 210.2 billion, a full 5.5 percent below the
>222.5 billion clocked the previous December. This total includes 79.6
>billion vehicle-miles on rural roads and 130.7 billion vehicle-miles on
>urban roads and streets.
>

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