[PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh Railways maps

[John Swindler]

Yes.   Didn't you turn 65 about 18 months ago???

And to avoid using your Medicare card, go to Red Rose Transit for a Senior 
Citizen ID card.  The following link has info on SEPTA fares and hours - 
applys across the state.

http://www.septa.org/fares/senior_citizens.html

So, Fred, when are you going to learn where to park in Downingtown - so that 
you can ride the 9:17am trip into Philly and connect with SEPTA Newark train 
- then reduced senior citizen NJ Transit fare to New York.  (:>)

John



>From: Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh Railways maps
>Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:26:21 -0400
>
>Oh, you mean I can ride free from 9 to 4 now?  When I get on or when
>I get off or when I show my medicare card?
>
>On Sep 16, 2005, at 7:55 AM, John Swindler wrote:
>
>
> >
> > If John were still alive, Fred, he would probably find that the
> > 'rush hour'
> > in Lancaster and most other small Pa towns was from 9-4.  The senior
> > citizens wait for the first bus after 9 am so that they can ride
> > for free
> > (ok, courtesy of all the losers who play the lottery) (:>)
> >
> > That was also the rational a few years ago for reducing the
> > definition of
> > 'rush hour'  to only an hour.  Might as well let the senior
> > citizens ride
> > for free in the shoulder of the traditional rush hour - because
> > there are
> > just not that many other riders any more - in most town.
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >> From: Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> >> Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> >> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> >> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh Railways maps
> >> Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:47:54 -0400
> >>
> >> If you will forgive me for picking a few nits here ...  rush hour
> >> only is a very difficult thing to define and it does vary extensively
> >> by city.  Unless it has changed, the rush in Jim Holland's adopted
> >> city begins very early in the morning and very early in the afternoon
> >> because San Francisco is the Wall Street of the West.  I do not
> >> pretend to be an expert on how this might have changed with after
> >> hours trading, but the old rule was that San Francisco stock brokers
> >> kept the same hours as the New York stock brokers.   The result was a
> >> rather spread out rush hour.
> >>
> >> Pittsburgh, because of the mills has a very heavy early peak in the
> >> afternoon after 3 PM.  The colleges and universities in Oakland added
> >> to that crush.   The Shannon tripppers were running in the middle of
> >> the afternoon.  A now deceased friend of mine, John Bowman, once
> >> lamented that he went out early in the morning in Pittsburgh and
> >> found the rush hour was over and the cars were already going back to
> >> the barns.  He simply wasn't used to that because he came from a town
> >> where most people went to work somewhere around 8 AM and came home
> >> around 5 PM.
> >>
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> >>
> >> On Sep 15, 2005, at 3:20 PM, James B. Holland wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>> James B. Holland mentioned:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> 11 East Street and 43 Neeld are not listed, but 47 Carrick Rush
> >>>>> Hour
> >>>>> Service is listed and that is how it is listed -- all three were
> >>>>> rush
> >>>>> hour so why list one and not the others?!?! Not checking for
> >>>>> others.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> John Swindler wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Routes 11 and 43 were rush hour short turns for 10 and 42
> >>>> respectively. 47 was a separate routing that just happened to
> >>>> operate
> >>>> only during the rush hour. Similar to 79 about ten years earlier
> >>>> (according to Pittsburgh city directory)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Good Point, John!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> And during the 1950s, was 37 a rush hour only, or  did it have all
> >>>> day
> >>>> service??
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Strictly rush hours even while Charleroi and Washington were
> >>> still in
> >>> service  --  thus the  SHANNON--CHARLEROI  and  SHANNON--WASHINGTON
> >>> designations.       These two interurban used to run in tandem,
> >>> hour and
> >>> half-hour from Pgh., and ran Limited through Overbrook.       Once
> >>> SHANNON  was added to the sign, then the cars ran local and local 37
> >>> service was rush hour only.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Jim__Holland
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I__Like__Ike.......And__PCCs!!
> >>>
> >>> down with pantographs ---- UP___WITH___TROLLEYPOLES!!!!!!!
> >>>
> >>>
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