[PRCo] Re: (No

[Bob Rathke]

I remember the old law from the Pa. driver's exam book in the 1950's.

Bob 5/13/06

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2006 6:39 PM
Subject: [PRCo] 


> 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."
>  
>