[PRCo] Re: Traffic

[Edward H. Lybarger]

And the Scottdale-Everson bridge (although there was a siding much of its
length) and Pittsburgh Street in Dunbar.

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Subject: [PRCo] Re: Traffic


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.