[PRCo] Re: Routes that Could Have Been Retained

[mtoytrain at bellsouth.net]

Boris, Fred and Ed

You European travelers, it has been a number of years since traveling all around Euroope, both East and West, what is the current status of streetcar or trolley lines in the various European capitals?
that was a thrill for me, no matter where I went and that was to ride a street car!

Jerry Matsick
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> From: Matt Barry <mrb190+ at pitt.edu>
> Date: 2005/10/07 Fri PM 03:52:47 EDT
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Routes that Could Have Been Retained
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> Yes!
> Boris Cefer wrote:
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> >Everything should have been retained!
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> >Boris
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> >----- 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
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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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