[PRCo] Re: Wabash Tunnel in Operation

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, John Swindler wrote:

>
> PAT owns it.  Acquired for TERL or Skybus. (for those old enough)  Later
> used for storing old buses in case of another gas shortage, but a damp
> tunnel environment does wonders on structural steel.
>
> I thought recent conversion to highway use was tied in with the West Busway
> project, just not sure how - or why.  Those decisions are made by people

Well, the West Busway plan involved a bridge and the West Busway coming 
all the way along the shelf with the railroad to that point, where both 
the busway and the tunnel traffic could cross the bridge. If that had 
happened and if it had been completed before the Ft Pitt Bridge/Tunnel 
project, as originally proposed, that might have made some sense...