[PRCo] Re: Trolleys

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 7 Mar 2005, James B. Holland wrote:

> Highly commendable.       We have lost a member or two on this list
> because of all the comments denigrating the USA and many others have cut
> way back on participating if not cut it out altogether.       Don't say
> it is constructive criticism  --  no way for it to take effect on this
> list.       Of the 60 or more lists to which I belong this is the  ONLY
> one where we have self-appointed experts on ALL the politics of the
> world and where uncontrolled rambling is the Rule rather than the Exception.

As I said before, I'm no one's mom. If you want to be critical, I'm not 
going to stop you any more than I stopped anyone else. I will say I'm big 
on living by example though. I prefer it when we stay on topic, and I try 
to myself.

> At least WP used Words in addition to colors.       This business of
> calling a route by Color Only is totally absurd  --  green line and blue
> line  --  is everything along the line painted blue or green?       Not
> even the equipment is painted that color  --  one could get on an orange
> PCC in Boston and be on the green line.       What sense does this
> make?       In addition to knowing where one wants to go that person
> also has to associate it with a color.

Well, even when Pittsburgh's subway opened in the 80s, they used color 
coding, (red for 42S, blue for all the 47 lines) but only on maps and 
signs, and not as identifying names. It was perhaps not as useful as it 
could have been (the signs on the high and low platforms in the downtown 
subway were red and blue respectively, and might have had more impact if 
the colors had been more strongly identified with the routes, but the PCCs 
didn't last that long anyway)