[PRCo] Re: Dormont & Interurbans

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!

> Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> Dormont's community website claims Banksville, and I
> believe them.    I think this is one of those cases of
> a name simplification, but I should check.    I speculate
> that it's now signed Banksville to where McFarland and
> Beverly meet.

	Or the website is using a namore more familiar that ends
right at the pool property.    And name could have been
changed  --  Dormont Ave did not always go thru to Banksville 
--  believe Dwight had a different name and it intersected
Dormont Ave and extended to Banksville n the 1940s.

>> Jim wrote:::::::

>>       Ohmers used in Charleroi // Washington service.  
>> Regular fareboxes otherwise.

> I should have been clearer.    Ohmer registers weren't
> used when not in interurban service, yes?

	Library and Drake still considered Interurbans by PRCo
according to their famous route map.    They have a special
section called  *Interurbans.*

>>       How is the weekly // monthly pass tabulated
>> on transit now?    By eyeball!

> Written down then and keyed in now?

	Different transit systems use different methods surely, but
here in SF we just acknowledge the monthly // weekly // daily
// cable car pass // Tourist Passport--Passes  etc  --  NO 
recording of same  --  just acknowledgement to passenger that
we see their  *Valid*  pass.

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