[PRCo] Re: Boarding buses and trains

[Harold Geissenheimer]

Greetings

Remember that there is no layover downtown.  So its a round trip
before recovery time.  Not as bad as you might think.

In PCC days, it was always necessary to fit Library cars inbetween Drake
cars.  The present LRT must fit inbetween South Hills Village cars.

Harold

John Swindler wrote:

> I like the PAT Sunday schedule for Library.  30 min. headway with 28-32 min.
> layover at Simmons Loop.  How fortunate that public transit in Pittsburgh
> has unlimited funding.
>
> John
>
> >From: ROGERTROLLY at webtv.net (ROGER Jenkins)
> >Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> >To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> >Subject: [PRCo] Re: Boarding buses and trains
> >Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 22:14:36 -0800 (PST)
> >
> >
> >Having driven public transit buses in San Diego and Brockton Mass. , its
> >the schedule makers that write up an unrealistic schedule for a
> >particular route that will make or break being on time or late. One
> >particular route 15 schedule I drove on a Sunday PM , from downtown to
> >El Cajon , a distance of 15 miles , cut the running time between time
> >points so much [because they thought the riding was less on Sunday ]
> >that by the time you made a round trip you were 15 min late leaving the
> >downtown terminal . And on each succesive trip you got later and later
> >.!!  You had to go to the restroom at the end of each trip and they gave
> >you a 15 min , supper break ,which I took ! [otherwise you went hungry
> >.]
> >
> >    At the end of the night I was over 1hour and 20 min. late !
> >Everybody else was as late as I was . I wrote out what they called a
> >Micelaneous [SIC] Report to the schedule dept. explaining the situation
> >and it took them until the next schedule change two months later to
> >improve the running times !  In the meantime we all heard it from the
> >riders about the inconsistant schedule !!
> >
> >    As an example of the poor time element , from Hillcrest at 5th and
> >University to Park Blvd and University the weekday running time was 12
> >min. Sunday it was 7 min. [a distance of  9 blocks and six
> >unco-ordinated traffic lites ]  Impossible to make in a bus . The
> >running joke among the drivers was that the schedule makers ran the time
> >points in an Mazda RX7 SPORTS CAR to figure the running times.
> >
> >
>
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