[PRCo] Re: Trolleyville

[hrbran99 at adelphia.net]

Oddly enough, for a large city system, Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA) does not have much of a problem with graffiti. Any which does appear in the buses, cars and trains is cleaned up asap. Then too, RTA does demand the fare (1.50 one-way/no transfers) from everyone. This keeps the @$$es off the public tansit. They would rather walk than pay a $155.00 court summons for failure to pay transit fare. Our transit police are very efficient also.

Too bad Pittsburgh wasn't doing that back in 1975 when I got sucker punched in the right eye over a fare.

HrB
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From: <ktjosephson at earthlink.net>
Date: 2004/06/20 Sun PM 10:53:43 EDT
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Trolleyville


Fred Schneider wrote:

> Running antiques on the street is a scary proposition.  I'm worried about
the
> Pittsburgh high floor  ... not about those CA&E hulks.

I believe you have worn out your welcome in Chicago, Fred. ;-)

Seriously, my concern is that a number of young people are so deeply
entrenched in the "graffiti culture" that they will carve, paint and mark up
the cars' interiors beyond recognition.

I noticed modern style gang tagging scratched into some of the seatbacks in
one of OERM's PCCs (I believe it was LARy 3100) a few years ago. I figured
it was the moronic loser children or young gang banging parents of those
moronic loser children visiting the museum from L.A. or San Bernadino.
Charlie Brown (of Long Beach Transit fame) informed me that the mothers of
the twerps living in the apartments that have encroached upon the land
surrounding the museum have been known to give the little darlings money and
send them off for a "train ride" so they can have some private time with
"Uncle Whoever" is living with them that week.

K.



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