[PRCo] Historical___Note --- PAAC__SetUp

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!


	More historical information from Dennis Linsky on Port Authority
of Allegheny County  --  PAAC aka PAT.    Dennis culls the
periodicals of the day for this information:


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	It was 44 years ago when the Transit Authority of Allegheny
County that was being set up in Pittsburgh was becoming a big
campaign issue.    On Friday, October 23, 1959, the County
Commissioners met to launch a 2-year survey to solve local bus
and trolley problems.    The study will investigate costs
involved in acquiring and consolidating Pittsburgh Railways and
28 independent bus lines into a unified rapid transit system.   
The Authority will also investigate ways to modernize mass
transportation so that better service could be offered to
commuters.    (After this 2-year investingation, the Authority
then was to proceed toward purchasing the transit systems
involved).

       From HEADWAY RECORDER, November, 1959, page N-10, top.

       Very Sincerely,

       Dennis M. Linsky
       1350 East 5th Street, Apt. 3P
       Brooklyn, NY   11230-4686
       11/10/03


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Waiting for a bus is as thrilling as fishing,
    with the similar tantalisation that something,
        sometime, somehow, will turn up. 
            George Courtauld

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James B. Holland

• Holland  Electric  Railway  Operation....... 
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	Trolleycars and "O"--Scale  Parts
		including Q-Car
	mailto:pghpcc at pacbell.net

• Pennsylvania Trolley Museum
	http://www.pa-trolley.org/
• Pittsburgh  Railways  Company  (PRCo),
	1930  --  1950
• N.M.R.A.  Life member #2190;
	http://www.nmra.org

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