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

[Herb Brannon]

Where were you??
 
Herb Brannon


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From: Derrick J Brashear <shadow at dementia.org>
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Sent: Sunday, February 4, 2007 11:41:37 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: pat__service__cuts__2007.01.23-changed to 2/1/07


On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Joshua Dunfield wrote:

>
> 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...
>

I took the 1:40am train to Moerby Centrum and got off at Tekniska 
Hogskoelan (excuse the anglicized spellings); Next train was 5:45am. On my 
last day before I came back, cash fare went from 20kr to 40kr. It's still 
nice there but it's not paradise.