[PRCo] Re: [PRCo]

[Fred Schneider]

And as I said to John personally ... no thanks are due.   We should  
be kicking ourselves in the behind because it will take a century to  
rebuild the cities we demolished in our haste to move to the suburbs  
to use the cheap oil.

On May 1, 2006, at 8:46 AM, John Swindler wrote:

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> Wait until March 2006 numbers show up.  Last falls 'Katrina'  
> related numbers
> were only a speed bump.  Now we are starting to see some real  
> increases at
> even the small agencies.  As an article from 12-18 months ago  
> forecasted:
> 'we should give thanks at Thanksgiving 2005 for a century of cheap  
> oil.'
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> John
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>> From: Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
>> Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>> Subject: [PRCo] Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 23:11:31 -0400
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>> Mark McGuire asked about patronage increases ... here was an item
>> from Progressive Railroading relating to increases in riding in the
>> 4th Quarter 2005 over 2004.
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>> Progressive Railroading
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>> 1/19/2006    Ridership
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>> All modes post third-quarter passenger gains, APTA says
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>> High gas prices helped spur ridership in all transit modes during
>> third-quarter 2005, according to a recent American Public
>> Transportation Association (APTA) report. Overall, transit ridership
>> increased 3.3 percent compared with third-quarter 2004.
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>> Light-rail ridership increased 8.8 percent during the third quarter
>> compared with the same 2004 period. Ridership increased significantly
>> in several cities, including Minneapolis (up 70.9 percent), Tampa
>> (22.1 percent), Los Angeles (15.9 percent), San Diego (15.1 percent)
>> and Houston (14.8 percent).
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>> In the commuter-rail realm, ridership rose 4.6 percent. Cities
>> registering gains include Chesterton, Ind. (up 10.4 percent),
>> Philadelphia (9.9 percent), Harrisburg, Pa. (8.9 percent), San
>> Carlos, Calif. (7.9 percent) and Los Angeles (5.7 percent).
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>> Finally, heavy-rail ridership increased 4.3 percent compared with
>> third-quarter 2004. Cities posting increases include Cleveland (up
>> 7.8 percent), Los Angeles (7.7 percent), Philadelphia (7.6 percent),
>> Boston (7.3 percent), Washington, D.C. (6.3 percent) and Chicago (6.2
>> percent).
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>> Although gas prices dipped in November, ridership didn’t well into
>> the fourth quarter, according to a recent APTA survey. Eighty-eight
>> percent of transit agencies reported ridership gains in November 2005
>> compared with November 2004.
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