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

[Fred Schneider]

I don't think it is that Herb.   I remember the Chief Dispatcher at  
Conestoga Transportation Co. telling me back in the 1970s about a  
special bus service they established to serve the women who worked at  
Shick's razor factory and several other plants in the same industrial  
plant.   Their drivers noted that the passengers disappeared after  
they received the second pay checks and when they inquired of the  
other passengers where Suzy or Martha was the answer was universal,  
"They now have enough money to buy a car."   Factory runs no longer  
pay.   It's the services to dentists, doctors, lawyers and malls for  
the indigent and retired and under 16 that seem to have become the  
mainstay of public transit, at least in the small towns and in the  
suburbs of the larger cities.   Some management types will use  
transit because it is easier than finding a place to park downtown.    
But the factory worker doesn't, even if the factory still exists.

On Feb 3, 2007, at 7:39 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:

> Too bad. I guess since there are no factories remaining everyone  
> works bankers hours? Or so the PAT management believes. We still  
> have 14 routes w/ 24-hour service.
>
> Herb Brannon
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Joshua Dunfield <joshuad at cs.cmu.edu>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Sent: Saturday, February 3, 2007 5:29:30 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: pat__service__cuts__2007.01.23-changed to 2/1/07
>
>
> Herb Brannon wrote:
>> Interesting to note that 24-hour service is beginning again. When I
>> worked at PATransit 24-hour service was offered on both the 42/38  
>> and 35
>> car lines as well as many bus lines.
>
> Unfortunately, 24-hour service died in the first round of cuts,  
> around 2003
> if memory serves.  When it started in '01, one of my friends (who  
> grew up in
> Stockholm) told me that "Pittsburgh is becoming a real city!"  Well...
>
> Best,
> -j.
>
>