[PRCo] Re: pat__service__cuts__2007.01.23-changed to 2/1/07

[Joshua Dunfield]

John Swindler wrote:
> Could this really just be a process to mobilize PAT's constituancy to lobby 
> the state legislature?  After all, it's worked the last 4-5 years, why 
> should it not work again.  (do a search of Post Gazette archives)

No search needed for me; I remember how it went.  But as I said a few weeks
ago, this time isn't the same.  The old way of scaring people was to put
forward totally stupid proposals to cut all service after 7 p.m., or 9 p.m.,
or Sundays.  The current proposal looks like a good-faith effort.  Of course
the earlier proposals were indistinguishable from good-faith but totally
incompetent efforts, so who knows.

[...]
> But for those on this list, one might ask why most of the 41 series or 
> routes slated for abandonment were never changed to light rail feeders years 
> ago.

My guess is that feeding would be significantly slower, not even counting
the ridership-killing inconvenience of a transfer.  Go ahead -- look up the
schedules and prove me wrong.  The 42S/42L (if we're talking "years ago")
wasn't exactly a speed demon, not that Overbrook is that much better.

-j.