[PRCo] Re: Route 32-P&LE Shuttle

[Donald Galt]

On 5 Apr 2002 at 8:58, Dietrich, Robert J. wrote:

> 
> Didn't Route 32 originally go up Mt. Washington to the top of the incline?
> Why was it reduces to a shuttle?  Could it have been that he city wanted to
> widen and pave Woodruff St. and Saw Mill Run Blvd.?  Could it be that the
> city forced PRCo to keep the shuttle to maintain the franchise?  Did anyone
> ever ride the thing?
> 

The 33 Mount Washington (at one time, #206) was the earliest 
streetcar service to the area, antedating the South Hills tunnel and 
the #40. It ran up Woodruff, Virginia, Wyoming and Bailey, 
terminating just beyond the upper station of the Castle Shannon 
(north) incline.

We had some discussion about this a couple of years ago, but 
every evidence I have in hand shows it using the Point bridge, not 
Smithfield.

I think surely it was the building of Saw Mill Run Parkway that 
doomed it. For a brief while it seems to have survived in truncated 
form to serve Wabash Avenue as far as the region of where the 
south portal of Fort Pitt tunnel is now.

Don