[PRCo] Re: Santa Barbara Siding

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, John Swindler wrote:

> Going to London, Derrick??
> 
> Hope you have some free time built into your schedule.

None, actually. I'm seeing a play at 19:30 on 11/30, arriving 6:30 on
11/30 and leaving 10:40 on 12/1

> So what does PAT do to encourage visitors to use transit in Pittsburgh??

Not as much as SEPTA. How's that for scary? There *was* a daily visitor's
pass, but unless you got it by mail you had to get it at the service
center downtown, and I haven't heard about it in a few years now. SEPTA,
by contrast, has something sold in a few dozen places around their service
area, including 1234 Market Street, which was literally across from my
hotel last week.

I did some of my early "touring" of the system with this pass... but I
always had to go downtown first to get it, incurring one fare to get
there. As a high school student that extra $1.25 would have been useful to
keep. That was back when Overbrook was still open, but while 52 Allentown
was closed, so somewhere a I have a few sets of photos covering all of
42S, 47D, 47S, 47L and "Subway Local", and maybe the Penn Station Shuttle.
If I can find them, I'll scan them and put them online.