[PRCo] Re: Rumors

[Fred Schneider]

I never figured out why PAT ran weekend bus service.  Company policy was to keep the
power on, even on abandoned routes, until the wires could be removed ... prevented
theft of saleable copper.   There was probably no elimination of platform staff ... one
driver = one motorman.  However, they may have shut down Craft on the weekends and run
everything out of another division and saved some supervisory labor.  It may have
simply been that they believed the buses were more modern, or we needed to acclimate
the riders to buses.

Ken & Tracie wrote:

> Not to get further off topic, but didn't some of the best informed and most
> knowledgeable members of this list once predict that San Jose and Buffalo would be
> the most likely candidates for abandonment of light rail service during the modern
> era? San Jose has already suspended their heritage operations at least once, though
> it may have been reinstated. Buffalo has lost quite a bit of its traffic base and
> economic changes in both locales have kept these two systems from reaching their
> projected ridership.
>
> If San Jose does eliminate some weekend light rail service, it would be reminiscent
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