[PRCo] Re: Headways Route 12 versus Route 9

[Fred W. Schneider III]

I think you are closer ... 90 million divided by 365 equals a daily
average of 246,575.  Weekdays might have been over 250,000.  That comes
out to about 63 people per scheduled one-way trip.  Certainly closer to
the mark than 6.3 people per trip.  

Remember that Conestoga had zone fares like West Penn ... probably half
their passengers were multiple-zone riders.  CTC may have been no better
at guessing actual riders than West Penn. Maybe the number wasnt 9 or 90
million but somewhere in between.    

"Edward H. Lybarger" wrote:
> 
> I think Conestoga would have gone broke if it hauled only 9 million
> passengers.  This was an era when West Penn carried 70+ million and
> Pittsburgh Railways 275 million.  Perhaps Ben meant 90 million.
> 
> Ed
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of Fred
> W. Schneider III
> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 10:52 AM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Headways Route 12 versus Route 9
> 
> No, John,
> 
> I'm waiting for you to spend your free time at PennDOT getting out all
> of the Conestoga Traction DIA reports.  There is something that doesn't
> make sense.  Ben Rohrbeck claimed that CTC hauled 9 million people in
> 1924 and that this was their best year.  I have trouble comprehending
> how they could have lost money in 1923, 1924, 1925, and blamed it on
> auto competition, and still it was their best year.  Doesn't make much
> sense does it.
> 
> Fred
> 
> John Swindler wrote:
> >
> > So I guess your waiting for me to check PUC docket A-79997 of 1953?
> >
> > John
> >
> > >From: "Fred W. Schneider III" <fschnei at supernet.com>
> > >Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> > >To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> > >Subject: [PRCo] Re: Headways  Route 12 versus Route 9
> > >Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 00:44:12 -0400
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >Jim Holland wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > John Swindler wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Why 15 minutes service:  Because "custom to operate the service as
> > > > > frequently as could be operated with one man".
> > > >
> > >So why did Pittsburgh Railways run route 12 every hour and let the
> > >motorman sit at Evergreen Road for 20 minutes or so every trip?
> > >Different schedule writer, different logic?
> > >
> >
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