Beechview

[Derrick J Brashear]

--On Tuesday, February 27, 2001 12:33:35 PM -0800 Jim Holland 
<pghpcc at pacbell.net> wrote:

> Greetings!
>
>> Derrick wrote:
>
>> . . . Rebuilding the existing
>> Beechview line and extending the service to South Hills Village
>
>	 Let's see:::::::.......
>
>	 38-MtLebanon
>	 42-Dormont  --  24 hour service.
>	 43-Neeld  --  in reality, a short-turn of the 42-Dormont.  In fact,
> other cities with split destination signs would list this as
> *42-Dormont--Neeld*  as opposed to  *42-Dormont--McFarland*  for full
> through service.  And this 43-line was rush hour service ONLY
> terminating on northern edge of Beechview.
>
>	 So why is this line always called the Beechview line??(:->)

I followed the convention of PAT. 42 is "via Beechview" and 47 "via 
Overbrook"

> I was even
> miffed at PRCo for signing the owl as 42/38--MtLebanon--Beechview!!  And
> this later became the norm when the 38-line inbound of Dormont Jct was
> abandoned.  One possible explanation for the latter is that the 38-line
> did go through the center of Dormont but not the center of Beechview and
> the MtLebanon--Beechview made that distinction!