[PRCo] Re: Motor flashovers on PCC cars

[Fred Schneider]

And Chick worked for the state.  He understood.

On Apr 30, 2007, at 11:10 AM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> It's not mine.  I got it from Chick Siebert.  But it's true.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of  
> Fred
> Schneider
> Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 12:10 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Motor flashovers on PCC cars
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> Sad, isn't it?   But where else do you want your politicians?
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> Ed Lybarger had a wonderful expression.  It went, "Be thankful you
> don't get all the government you pay for."
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> On Apr 28, 2007, at 12:05 PM, Boris Cefer wrote:
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>> I think we are getting a little off the subject...I believe the  
>> people
>> heading large transit companies do not come to carry people and
>> improve the
>> service. They come to fill they pockets and then change the company
>> before
>> it becomes too hot. Now I see they do not use experts to help them
>> in making
>> important decisions - they use experts to put on responsibility for
>> troubles
>> when these occur as a result of bad decisions. These methods have  
>> been
>> recently adopted here.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
>> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 5:45 PM
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Motor flashovers on PCC cars
>>
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>>> That would imply we have a policy and that we think.  I believe,
>>> Boris, you are giving too much credit.  Transit tends to be knee  
>>> jerk
>>> and reactionary.   It isn't policy.   It's simply that we haven't
>>> spent the money to fix anything and now we're caught with our pants
>>> down so we have to downgrade the equipment to provide any service at
>>> all.
>>>
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