Butler and Musings

[Jim Holland]

Greetings!

Butler   and   Musings

"AND   WHILE   WE   ARE   ON   THE   SUBJECT   of public transportation
in our cities, Butler (Pa.) which finds itself in the very unfortunate
predicament of possible loss of its local transportation system was
reminded that the solution is not easy.  Ellis L. Armstrong, former
chief of the U.S.Bureau of Public Roads says that there aren't enough
people in the U.S. to fill the front seats of the cars, buses and trucks
on the roads today.  Every man, woman and child--185 milliion of
them--could be on the wheels and rolling at the same instant, and
wouldn't even fill the front seats of all the vehicles.  Not a railroad
passenger train would have to move, let alone a streetcar, an airplane,
a steamboat--or even a bicycle or baby buggy!!"

P.R.M.A.   *Trolley   Fare*   Vol VII #10,   February 1961.
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James B. Holland

        Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),   1930  --  1950
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