[PRCo] Re: PAT and the "T" operation

[John Swindler]

Wasn't the use of Ardmore Blvd. right of way for rapid transit a 
recommendation of the 1923 transit study??  Page 50 and 58 if this link 
doesn't work.


http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=pitttext;cc=pitttext;q1=ardmore;rgn=full%20text;idno=00hc02383m;didno=00hc02383m;view=image;seq=0056



>From: Derrick J Brashear <shadow at dementia.org>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: PAT and the "T" operation
>Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 14:15:04 -0500 (EST)
>
>On Thu, 4 Jan 2007 mtoytrain at bellsouth.net wrote:
>
> > When I left Pittsburgh the mighty PCCs were operating "great" in 1965, 
>my question is what was the first year of operation for the "T"?    How 
>long was Overbrook shut down?    Another question:   With
> > Ardmore Boulevard (private right of way) was there no consideration of 
>running the LRVs to East End of the city, which is a very populated area?
>
>You'd have to get the cars to Wilkinsburg to enter the RoW.
>
>Even the West End RoW along Steubenville Pike didn't survive (the Point
>Bridge died, and I guess the trip from the Smithfield St Bridge was too
>long... Then we got the West Busway to essentially bring back a similar
>RoW, so....
>
>

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