[PRCo] Re: Second__Time__Around.......

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!

	Same goes for lrv in general   ---   with Buffalo a case in point.   Twas
considered abandoning but then they would have to repay the Feds!   Some
lrv construction today is more fad than substance.
	What about Kenosha   ---   budget cuts actually shut the operation down
for a while   ---   brought back on a limited schedule.   Don't know where
it stands now.
	Don't know that I would call the first round a failure   ---   just that
'everything has its day in the sun' and then it passes into history.   For
the 'streetcar' aka 'trolleycar' etc., the time has basically passed!   The
PCC staved off abandonments for a while in some places with the help from a
wartime economy!

> Greg King wrote:

> I tend to agree with you (look at the original Detroit operation, the one
> that started it all)

> What these groups need to focus on first is; Is there a need for a transport
> corridor there? If not, forget it, it won't work just by having pretty
> trolleys there. If there is a need, the figures have to stack up or you end
> up seeing a "last car" again.

> What these forget is, once you have ridden them a few times, the novelty
> wears off and they just become another peice of transport, then people start
> to talk about noisy uncomfortable streetcars,.......

>> From: "Fred Schneider" <fschnei at supernet.com>

>> Re: the link to the Cincinnati trolley promoters, I  never cease t be
>> amazed by those who think they can bring back what didn't work in the
>> past in order to give it a second chance to fail.   In the last year
>> I've seen and ridden empty cars (except for EHL, myself, and the
>> motorman) on the McKinney Avenue operation in Dallas, and I've ridden
>> with a small group of people on cars in Memphis (you had a choice of
>> 3/4s of the seats in the car).

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