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

[John Swindler]

As a footnote, this was before the 1955 (?) strike and its effect on 
ridership.  Pity we don't have west end ridership by route for 1953, 1959, 
and 1963.

John


>From: Jim Holland <PghPCC at pacbell.net>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: April 1959 Timepoints -- West End
>Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 17:51:32 -0700
>
>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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>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.......
>   "O"--Scale St.-Petersburg Trams Company (SPTC)
>	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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