[PRCo] Re: Traffic

[John Swindler]

Or how about Arlington Ave. used by rt. 49.  In this case, one track was 
eliminated due to streetwork (vague recollection).  By then, trolley tunnel 
was open.

The second track finally returned some 50-60 years later as part of light 
rail project.

John


>From: Derrick J Brashear <shadow at dementia.org>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Traffic
>Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:18:57 -0500 (EST)
>
>On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Fred Schneider wrote:
>
> > A lot of cities were confronted with this problem ... not unusual in
> > Charleroi or Trafford.    Here in Lancaster they made King, Orange,
> > Duke and Queen Streets one-way in 1930.   The traction company tried
> > to accommodate the change but initially about 70 streetcars an hour
> > had to buck traffic in the first block of East King Street to get
> > into Penn Square ... that was the eastbound Lincoln Highway (US
> > 30).   By 1932 they had abandoned the New Holland / Terre Hill
> > service and by 1935 the line down the Lincoln Highway to Leaman
> > Place / Gap / Coatesville was gone / and by 1938 Lititz cars no
> > longer bucked traffic but each of these changes only removed one or
> > two cars an hour.   The city routes had up to 10 trips an hour.
> > The issue really didn't end until February 1947 and by then, with
> > most war traffic on the rise, it was really a calamity to have
> > trolleys coming the wrong way down the middle of a one-way street in
> > the oldest named paved highway in the country.
>
>How about the tracks on one side of the Crawford Avenue bridge in
>Connellsville?
>
>Less traffic, same idea.
>

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