[PRCo] Re: 'burgh Transit Reports

[John Swindler]

Fantastic.  Currently ODing on the maps.  1890 shows Perrysville Plank Road 
near Charles as still farm land.  Upper Charles St. (ok, route 9)not 
developed either.  Taggert St. barn shown as property of Federal Street and 
Pleasant Valley Ry Co.

In 1923 maps, Taggert St. barn still shown, but apparently newer Charles St. 
barn also shown.  Track diagram for California and Brighton correct, but map 
maker had a bit of problem with Charles and Perrysville.

Thank you for this link.  This is a 'keeper'.

John


>From: "Dietrich, Robert J." <bob.dietrich at unisys.com>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: "'pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org'"  
><pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>Subject: [PRCo] 'burgh Transit Reports
>Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 13:24:12 -0400
>
>
>I don't know if these have been discussed here or if I came up with a 
>first.
>While snooping around the U of Pitt "Historic Pittsburgh" pages I came
>across two reports on transit.
>
>http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/pitttext-idx.pl?notisid=00hc05255m&t
>ype=header  was written in 1910 by Bion Arnold for Mayor McGee.  It appears
>to place most of the blame of transit problems on poor accounting 
>practices.
>
>
>The second report --
>http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/pitttext-idx.pl?notisid=00hc02383m&t
>ype=header is a 1923 report, part of The Pittsburgh Plan.  It advocates 
>lots
>of subways and the use of the Wabash tunnel to alleviate the transit
>problems.
>
>One of these day's I'll get enough time to read through them.
>
>The nicest thing about these documents is that John doesn't have to
>transcribe them for us...
>
>Bob
>

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