[PRCo] Re: Routes that Could Have Been Retained

[Matt Barry]

Yes!
Boris Cefer wrote:

>Everything should have been retained!
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>Boris
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>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
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>>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.
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>>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.
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>>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
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>tourists.
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>>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.
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