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

[Jim Holland]

> John Swindler wrote:

> He should not be ignored.  A rebuttal to his letters needs to appear in
> print in all instances.  The stakes are too high.

> His is a lobby campaign.  Not to influence the local readers.  Because why
> would one of his form letters about light rail appear in the Meadville
> newspaper?  No, I suspect his real audience is the politicians whose staff
> will scan the local papers for daily reading files.  And what he is doing is
> planting the impression that rail transit is a waste of taxpayers money with
> the congressmen who will develope and vote on the TEA-21 reauthorization
> legislation in a couple years.

	An  EXCELLENT  opinion, John!  This is something that could effectively
be done through the trolley lists on the internet.  Maybe something
should be started to this end - drafting of a letter which many of us
could then sign and send to a variety of newspapers around the country
as well!

	ON  Your  Other  Posts  --  thanks for all the digging concerning West
Liberty and the extension of the 39-line to its  present--former--day 
loop!
	Will have to study the rest you wrote a little closer so I can
understand that Brownsville single-track  --  have to get my maps out
for that!

> Just an opinion.

>> From: ROGERTROLLY at webtv.net (ROGER Jenkins)

>> I would think by now that everyone would recognize that Wendell Cox is
>> anti-transit and really is trying to torpedo any and all transit rail
>> projects. He should be ignored as his ridership statistics are so far
>> off the mark , as to be fodder for the Comedy Club !

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