[PRCo] Re: Wabash Tunnel in Operation

[Fred Schneider]

The SPEED BUMP cartoon tonight was particularly appropriate.   Man  
walks down street and observes sign painted on law office window.    
It reads:   "Peterson, Peterson, Peterson and Peterson.    ATTORNEYS  
SPECIALIZING IN ENRICHING THE PETERSON FAMILY SINCE 1961."


On Jan 19, 2007, at 6:23 PM, trams2 at comcast.net wrote:

> The lawyers have to make it safe for everyone, remember?   
> Especially PennDOT lawyers.  People might run into each other and  
> then claim that it's the state's (or Port Authority's) fault  
> instead of their own.
> The problem is that these people often prevail.
>
> Ed
>
> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
>
>> 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...
>>>
>>
>>
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