[PRCo] Re: eBay Alert- Pittsburgh Car Stop Sign!

[Greg King]

Love it, I held my breath right through it. Don't worry, we have the same
stupid things happen here, rather different things, same stupidity!!!

Greg
----- Original Message -----
From: John F Bromley <johnfbromley at home.com>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 10:10 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: eBay Alert- Pittsburgh Car Stop Sign!


>
> Toronto has no sense - our pols start as left-leaning loonies and/or
idiots
> and go downhill from there.
>
> We're the speed bump capital of the world and it's increasing
exponentially
> so as to force drivers onto the main roads where they can cause the
traffic
> jams they were escaping from in the first place which tie up transit,
which
> they'd really like the drivers to get out of their cars and use which will
> happen when hell develops the big chill and couldn't be accommodated by
TTC
> in any event as they don't have enough vehicles and they won't order more
> because the government outside of the city provides ZERO funding, the only
> place in the world, I think, where that is true and just to make life
easier
> we were given 100% ownership of Go Transit commuter operations which
> operates mainly OUTSIDE of Toronto and no funding to improve it and they
> don't buy new buses because they don't want low-floors and don't have any
> money anyway so we rebuild 25 year old fishbowls to creak on for another
> three years and don't want low floor streetcars and if they did they
> couldn't put in even center sections in the artics because they're already
> underpowered and we're buildinmg a subway on Sheppard Ave that goes
nowhere
> and has 1/3 of stations closed off to save money on finishing them and
wiull
> open with one stgation closed altogether to save mopre money and it goes
> nowhere and never will and where's the sense in any of this and is there a
> period in here anywhere I don't think so end of rant
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Donald Galt" <galtfd at att.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 11, 2001 3:13 AM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: eBay Alert- Pittsburgh Car Stop Sign!
>
>
> >
> > On 10 Jun 01, at 23:41, John F Bromley wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I like Melbourne - it's the best place I've never been.
> > >
> >
> > You might say, the one place in the English-speaking world with
> > more sense than Toronto.
> >
> > Don
> >
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