[PRCo] 16th__Street__Bridge

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!

	The following is from Dennis Linsky who gleans this information from the
periodicals of the day:::::::

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	It was 50 years ago when, because of a month's closing of the 16th Street
Bridge, trolley routes 1-Spring Garden and 5-Spring View temporarily
resumed double-end car operation between their quaint termini and a
crossover at the end of the bridge at Chestnut and Canal Streets on the
North Side.   Route 77/54 (locally, the "Flying Fraction") avoided the
bridge by continuing along Penn and Liberty Avenues to a temporary terminus
at 9th Street.

	Additional service to the North Side was provided by extra trips on route
4-Troy Hill, but the recent changeover of routes 2-Etna and 3-Millvale to
buses and the extension of the downtown bus loop to Liberty Avenue didn't
help the inconvenienced riders of the 3 altered routes.

	No further word from the Pennsylvania PUC has been forthcoming on any
Pittsburgh Railways fare increase.   The Steel City claimed this was the
only locale where there was "stubborn adherence to an obsolete mass transit
system" and inferred all could be solved by conversion to bus or
trolleybus.

       Very Sincerely,

       Dennis M. Linsky
       1350 East 5th Street, Apt. 3P
       Brooklyn, NY   11230-4686
       email:  Dennismk1 at aol.com
       7/6/02

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James B. Holland

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