[PRCo] Re: Rumors

[Fred Schneider]

And to a greater extent I blame the sprawl for the end of service.  Note that
auto registrations went up from 0.5 million to 1.5 million in Pennsylvania
between 1920 and 1930 and the major interurbans disappeared after 1930.  And
they had no money to begin with ... between 1900 and 1950 the trolleys in
Pennsylvania lost $46 million, which comes out well over a billion dollars in
today's terms.  They could not afford to fight.  And even in 1875 they
couldn't afford a fight.  The only people who made money in the transit
business were the contractors, promoters, and vehicle manufacturers, and many
of them figured a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of vigtory by accepting
stock instead of cash for their work.

When was Cranberry Township named that?  And what villages on the Harmony
route were in the township?

Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> 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
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