[PRCo] Re: April 1959 Timepoints -- West End

[Jim Holland]

Good Morning!


	Dennis Linsky sends interesting Historical information about
various trolleycar lines and his info below about West End 
*possibilities*  is from 1953:::::


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Subject: Re: TROLLEY TRACKS NOT
	YET RULED OFF NEW FORT PITT BRIDGE:
		FARE RAISE DELAYED

       Good Morning, Everyone:

       It was 50 years ago this past Monday when the Pennsylvania
Department of
       Highways admitted that if the Allegheny Conference on
Community Development decided that tracks should go on the the
ramps leading to Pittsburgh's new state-built Fort Pitt bridge,
plans will be revised to include them.    Their stand was that
the tracks were undesirable because autos would have to follow
trolleys on the ramps.    Few autos were faster than a Pittsburgh
PCC on an upgrade!

       It was also revealed that Pittsburgh Railways Company has
signified its willingness to share in the $350,000 additional
cost required to make revisions in the super-structure plans.   
The fate of all West End trolley routes thus depended upon the
outcome of present (1953) negotiations.

       Pittsburgh's experimental fare raise, with weekly permit
and reduced zone fares, was blocked at the last minute after the
Pennsylvania PUC had ok'd it for a second time.    City Solicitor
Anne X. Alpern beat an October 18, 1953 deadline by getting
another State Superior Court stay, by "coincidence" delaying any
possibility of the change until after the November 3 elections.

       Very Sincerely,

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



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    with the similar tantalisation that something,
        sometime, somehow, will turn up. 
            George Courtauld

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James B. Holland

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