[PRCo]

[Fred Schneider]

 From Peter Folger's news items:   the state of Pennsylvania finally  
woke up to the fact that we still have streetcars and that they  
deleted a law five or ten years ago that made sense.   Now they  
restored the law.



"Harrisburg - excerpted from PRNewswire of May 11, 2006.

"Governor Edward G. Rendell today signed the following bills into  
law: House Bill 121,

"Additionally, the bill provides that a vehicle may not pass a streetcar
on the left when the streetcar is moving in the same direction. Nor  
may a
vehicle pass a streetcar that has stopped to receive or discharge
passengers on the side on which the passengers enter and the exit the
streetcar until the doors are closed and any discharged passengers have
moved to the side of the highway. This provision is not applicable to
locations where streetcars are operating on tracks located within a  
median
section of the roadway separated from the roadway by curbs or other
physical barriers."