[PRCo] Re: PAT's valley line

Derrick J Brashear shadow at dementia.org
Fri Oct 3 10:19:31 EDT 2003


On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Fred Schneider wrote:

> Can't have a stop at Glenbury ... there is an elevation difference.  The new rebuilt car tracks are half way up the
> cliff between the busway and the old Pittsburgh and West Virginia Railroad.   It's a failsafe system ... buses and cars
> will no longer be permitted to collide.  Of course buses will still be allowed to plow into buses, and LRVs into LRVs.

I guess with the ADA "steps" are right out. But if you look at the map,
notice the gap is larger there and a stop at Glenbury would be equally
spaced with all the other stops on the line (of course, probably the map
is not perfectly to scale).



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