[PRCo] Re: Off__Topic---BUT__Pertinent

[Jim Holland]

HI!
	I recognize this as scare-tactics, but the fact that it is mentioned
causes concern.
	Think it is better to be informed so counter action might be taken when
and  I-F  needed.

Jim

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Subject: [PRCo] Re: Off__Topic---BUT__Pertinent
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 16:34:02 -0500
From: John F Bromley <johnfbromley at rogers.com>
Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
References: <3CA0E7EE.FD55EDC2 at pacbell.net>

Don't concern yourself with this bullcrap - it was a slow news day.   TTC
streetcars are not nor will be in any danger.  Can you spell
":institution"?   Or "lynch-mob"?   First is what streetcars are here,
second is politico's fate if they try anything.

Forget this stuff - as I said it's pure BS.  Don't spread it around.

JFB

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Holland" <pghpcc at pacbell.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 4:28 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Off__Topic---BUT__Pertinent

Good Morning!

	Bill Robb of Toronto shares this extremely bleak article from a local
newspaper.   Please note these 3-paragraphs:::::::

	"Streetcars cost $3 million to $5 million apiece; repairing and
maintaining the tracks costs $30 million a year."

	"Buses cost $450,000 each, are much less expensive to repair, and run on
roadways maintained at city expense."

	"'You have to ask, at some point, is it cheaper to run buses than
streetcars - and that, I know, is a dynamite question,' Webster said."

	While Toronto is strictly streetcar in streets which slows efficiency,
I-F  such a stellar system abandons, it will make easy fodder for others to
follow suit.

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Budget crunch puts beloved but costly fleet at risk

Toronto Star, Tue, 26 Mar 2002
Joseph Hall
Transportation Reporter

Toronto's "sacred" streetcar fleet could start rolling off into history by
the end of next year unless significant new funding is poured into the
city's transit system, TTC officials say.

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