[PRCo] Re: Location?

[Harold Geissenheimer]

Boris
I do not always agree with Fred..  There are bad neighborhoods in any 
city world wide.
Bad places in Paris, London, Berlin, Rio, Buenos Aires, Miami, New 
Orleans. Chicago.
San Francisco, Philadelphoa, Washingt0on, DC etc,

In daylight you should be able to go on any main Pgh street and most of 
them at night.
You dont want to display cameras in some neighborhoods or hang out at a 
bad corner.
Its all common sense,  The first new Paris tramway (St Denis) is in a 
bad moslim neigjborhood
and some Metro stations are sensative.  Same in London or Berlin

In Pittsburgh as in many cities, housing projects could be bad at 
night.  Also Braddock,
Rankin.  Poverty  and race is the problem.  North Philadelphia, 
southside of Chicago
southwest LA.  Pittsburgh is better than others

You should be able to follow Eta, Millvale and other North side routes,  
Some problems
on lower Perrysville Ave and in projects.  West End no problem.  South 
Hills South Side except
for projects.  Even Warrington Ave is OK..  No problems on existing LRT

Pockets in East End and East Liberty.  In most cases you could  ride PAT 
buses. 

My mother lived with me until she died in 1988 at the age of 88.  She 
rode the bus
in Pgh (yes 82 Lincoln) from Shadyside to downtown thru the Hill 
District until
1976.  She rode north side Chicago buses 1976-1982 and Munii 1982-85.
Daylight of course in bad neighborhoods.

I remember going with fellow soldiers into East Baltimore and being 
advised that
the dock areas could be tough.  Yes, Fred I went to the Burlesque on 
East Baltimore
Street.

Pittsburgh is not an unsafe place.  Come and enjoy a nice city.  Fred 
can stay home.
I drove in several of these neighborhoods just last October.

Harold Geissenheimer

Boris Cefer wrote:

>So we shall not make a night trip over abandoned Pittsburgh trolley lines.
>Is it really so bad?
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Fred Schneider" <fschnei at supernet.com>
>To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 5:45 PM
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Location?
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>>Remember now, Mark, there are some neighborhoods that you really don't
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>>to enter without the 82nd Airborne Division in your car for protection.  A
>>lot of places that I used to be taken as a boy that were quite OK then but
>>are not today ... Braddock, Rankin, North Braddock, Wilkinsburg, Homewood,
>>Brushton, parts of East Liberty, even parts of the North Side.  Basically,
>>follow the Pennsylvania Railroad to the east ... those were the older and
>>now decaying neighborhoods.
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