[PRCo] Re: Rumors

[John Swindler]

Go with your last sentence, Fred.  Never underestimate public relations with 
government.

John



>From: Fred Schneider <fschnei at supernet.com>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Rumors
>Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 15:05:49 -0500
>
>
>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
>-- Trailing quotes stripped by Listar --


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