[PRCo] Re: PAT ridership

[Joshua Dunfield]

Fred Schneider wrote:
> I would like to see a boarding and alighting study of all the routes  
> in the 60s and 70s (or old 60s and 70s) to see what portions of the  
> load go to Oakland and what go to other points.

So would I.  (The 60s and 70s are all still 60s and 70s, AFAIK.  PAT had
the sense to keep the counterclockwise system, even if many folks don't
seem to notice there is a system.)  

>   Of course, knowing  
> that would make PAT more prone to remove service because people don't  
> go to Rankin or McKeesport or Wilkinsburg or Highland yet that may be  
> where some kids get on to go to Duquesne or Pitt or CMU.

Well...CMU students don't live in McKeesport.  Greenfield and Wilkinsburg
are about as exotic as it gets for them.  But hordes of university staff
and hospital employees also descend on Oakland every day.

PAT fairly recently started short-turning some inbound 71As at Robinson
Street, forcing a transfer (or a wait for a 500 or "real" 71A) for
Highland Park/East Liberty riders going downtown.  (East Liberty riders
who don't live near the busway station, that is.  If you can, you take
the EBA.)  The 69A was created specifically to relieve overcrowding
between Oakland and Squirrel Hill/Regent Square/Wilkinsburg.

-j.