[PRCo] Re: Wabash Tunnel in Operation

[Fred Schneider]

It is, believe it or not, a double track railroad tunnel but current  
wisdom has it that 12 foot lanes (I'm approximating) are not  
sufficient for a two-lane roadway.   Therefore it is one-way in  
mornings, one-way out evenings.   I've not been in it but what I'm  
relating was told to me by Ed Lybarger when we drove in to Station  
Square to the wedding of one of his sons last year.   So this is year  
old second hand knowledge.  Maybe its two year old second hand  
knowledge.  You can judge if my brain works well enough.

On Jan 19, 2007, at 11:11 AM, Derrick J Brashear wrote:

> 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...
>