[PRCo] Re: Patronage of the Rail Lines (Was: Pittsburgh 7-Charles Street abandonment)

[John Swindler]

It's not part of his agenda.


>From: Kenneth Josephson <kjosephson at sprintmail.com>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org,   "Paul M. Weyrich" 
><paulwey at freecongress.org>
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Patronage of the Rail Lines (Was: Pittsburgh 7-Charles 
>Street abandonment)
>Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 20:06:53 -0700
>
>
>I wonder way Mr. Wendell Cox ( a consultant some of our list members are
>familar with) never discusses this when he's out there giving his
>"objective" reasons to oppose light rail? I will be the first to say don't
>build a line where it won't draw passengers. Mr. Cox, however, seems to
>ignore the success stories.
>
>Ken J.
>
>Ed Tennyson wrote:
>
> >      To my knowledge, Routes  35, 36 and 37, now 42-S and 42-L  never
> > lost passen- gers after Worfld War II when they carried 24,000 weekday
> > passengers in 1953 after the interurbans were gone. Mid-day may have
> > lost riders, offset by more com- muters in the peaks.
> > (Riders were lost when buses replaced route 42/38 during reconstruction,
> > but they came back when rail service was restored     Just before the
> > Sixth Avenue Subway opened, ridership was still 24,000 but bus rdership
> > had gne way down over the years.
> > After the "T" got running right about 1988, ridership grew to 36,000 in
> > 1991, but was sharply curtailed by a strike, then the shut down of the
> > Overbrook Line in 1993. It is back to 24,000 again without Overbrook but
> > it had been 24,000  with Overbrook before the subway
> > If I remember anywthing wrong, I am sure you will remind me. I think I
> > have it right.
> > E d   T e n n y s o n
>
>

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