[PRCo] Re: Cleveland

[Herb Brannon]

Shall we change your name to whiner?
mtoytrain at bellsouth.net wrote:  Shall we change our name of the group to Cleveland-railways at dementia.org, sure hope not been
there and compared to Pittsburgh it was a no no. Please lets keep our topics on the PRCo
and of course the city where it is located or drop me from this group.

Jerry Matsick
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> From: Herb Brannon 
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> Date: 2007/01/14 Sun AM 10:51:42 EST
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Cleveland
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> Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority (RTA) is perhaps one of the best in the USA (we still have 24-hour service on 12 routes; even the wealthy ride the bus, car, and train; service improvements continue constantly; bus rapid transit (in the middle of Euclid Avenue) is under construction; new equipment (buses) are purchased annually; cars and trains are being rebuilt every month) and yet it is one of the oddes systems to work for! We have no annual "system pick" like PATransit or most other systems wereby operators may change operatiing stations. Once you are assigned to a station you are there for the duration. 
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> Will tackle the SHRT question later.
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> On Jan 13, 2007, at 5:40 AM, Jim Holland wrote:
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> >> This is the main reason I moved back to my hometown.................
> >> Cleveland is everything a 'Steel City' should be. Something happened
> >> sometime after 1985 that changed Pittsburgh far too much. I concur
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> > Maybe we should expand the list coverage to include Cleveland -- 
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> > it a Division of WP -- West of Pennsylvania??!! :-) ;-)
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> > Do you plan to transfer to Shaker when you have enough snority?
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> > Impressions of Shaker Operation??
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Herb Brannon