[PRCo] Re: PAAC____({[pat]})

[Harold Geissenheimer]

Greetings
PAAC was and is still the legal name of the organization..
KIt is owned by Allegheny County

PAT, Patrain, Patransit, The T (for LRT) and now Gold service are all
for advertising. They have no legal basis

PAAC was formed in the mid 1950's for the rivers. Inherited transit in 
the late 1950's
when they could not get a transit authority thru the legislature
Ed Beachler ran the river function for years. No function now

Harold Geissenheimer

Jim Holland wrote:

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>>Not so, Fred, concerning PAAC.
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>>Public still sees PAAC in reference to public transit
>>in Pittsburgh.     Try looking for transit statistics
>>on Pittsburgh at the FTA website.     Also the front
>>cover of the 1995 system map and the return address
>>used on any of the brochures issued for current
>>construction project - such as "Connextions: Stage II LRT".
>>Don't have any Pittsburgh transit schedules to check, but
>>also suspect they will be identified as issued by PAAC,
>>not PAT.
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>	The cover of an Interurban schedule dated
>1965.02.14 has  PAT - Port Authority Transit near the top
>but the address near the bottom has PAAC spelled out!
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>	A schedule for 1985.07.07 has PaTransit near the
>top but with the address inside is PAAC spelled out.
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>	({[pat]})  would be like a Division of PAAC??!!
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>John:	Do you remember us discussing this before?
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>	the formation of PAAC  --  ({[pat]})  but
>		can't seem to find same.
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>>Also, the name PAAC (Port Authority of Allegheny County)
>>is used with all contracts and grant payments to the
>>primary transit operator in Pittsburgh.    PAT is never used.
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>>>From: Fred Schneider <fschnei at supernet.com>
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>>>The county condemned PRC and 28 other bus companies
>>>to create the transit division of the
>>>Port Authority of Allegheny County.     The entire
>>>PAAC name rapidly disappeared from anything the
>>>public saw and evolved into PAT.     I think only
>>>Deere Brothers and Pittsburgh Railways fought
>>>the county in judicial proceedings. PRC lost;
>>>they were fighting to get the county to take everything,
>>>just like they did with the bus companies.  PAT only
>>>took what they wanted ... some cars, some buses,
>>>some real estate.
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