[PRCo] Re: Routes that Could Have Been Retained

[Boris Cefer]

Everything should have been retained!

Boris

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt Barry" <mrb190+ at pitt.edu>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 8:21 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Routes that Could Have Been Retained


> Looking at this photograph,
> http://www.davesrailpix.com/pitts/htm/pitt245.htm  I recalled what a
> pleasant ride it was heading out to the Highland Park Zoo from East
> Liberty, after a transfer from an outbound 88 car.
>
> I realize that the Oakland portions of the line, Fifth and Forbes are
> now mostly one-way from Downtown to Oakland, but a solution would have
> been using 88 Frankstown trackage to East Liberty, then to Negley Ave,
> and on to the Highland Park terminus.   Penn Avenue is still relatively
> Penn Avenue, as it was before the conversions in 1967.  OK, for awhile
> there was a huge building parked on top of Penn in East Liberty, but it
> had an underpass for buses, then ultimately all transportation once the
> idea of a pedestrian mall failed.  And Negley and the Highland Park area
> still has the same two-way streets and one-way streets the trolleys used.
>
> Why am I thinking about this at all?     Tourists.     While I was in
> New Orleans this past May, I realized that a lot of the folks riding the
> St. Charles (in particular) and the newer Canal Street lines, were
tourists.
>
> Another line I thought would have made a decent tourist one was 39
> Brookline.   And, of course, the grand tourist line of all, the Fineview.