[PRCo] Re: Changes (Was So you can't get to Pittsburgh?)

[John Swindler]

>From: Ken & Tracie <kjosephson at sprintmail.com>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Changes (Was So you can't get to Pittsburgh?)
>Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2003 07:02:50 -0700
>
>
>Jim Holland wrote:
>
> >         Ken  --  seems to me that you are deluding yourself!
> > ({[pat]})  fought the current lrv tooth and nail and balked
> > strongly against rebuilding Overbrook.    There was nothing but
> > disagreement on the rail system.
>
>Not PAT itself, but other people within the community who took on PAT's
>anti-rail stance.
>
>K.
>


Jim is correct for initial light rail line through Beechview.  The 
correspondence files pertaining to requests for state funding make for some 
interesting reading.

As for Overbrook, at about the time he went to APTA, Bill Millar referred to 
the Overbrook rebuilding as PAT's "stealth" project.  He explained that 
there was controversy over several other PAT projects, while planning and 
lining up funding for the Overbrook project quietly continued during 1990s.

John

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