[PRCo] Re: Rumors

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, Jim Holland wrote:

> 	Ridership figures were low for a while but eventually became quite
> substantial.    There  ARE  those who say that if the service is there
> the people will follow, and maybe That is the Philosophy that VTA
> followed.    But we can now see an hole in that Philosophy!

The problem with the opposite philosophy is you end up with Monroeville,
Cranberry and Robinson while the rails still go to (or most recently went
to Trafford, West View (yes, there was rail service in Cranberry if you go
back far enough) and Carnegie. To some extent I blame the end of "service
before development" for the disgusting sprawl which has come in the wake
of it. Clearly not that simple, because the post-war boom in development
couldn't possibly have been satiated by pre-existing rail service.