[PRCo] Re: Transit evolution

[Bill Robb]

My next memories are that Lake Shore Coach Company, the successor to  
Lake Shore Electric Railway had traded franchises with Central  
Greyhound.  CG ended up with the Cleveland - Toledo route and LSC got  
the Cleveland to Marietta service.  In the 1950s I remember Lake  
Shore Coach Company's PG 3701 buses in Marietta painted brown and  
orange ... the orange probably a leftover from the interurban car  
livery.    I don't have any schedules but I suspect they might have  
averaged 25 to 30 miles per hour, which would have required 5 hours  
30 minutes to 6 hours 45 minutes for the Marietta - Cleveland run.    
Driving it in an automobile in those days would have taken at least  
five hours.
So why doesn't public transportation work today?

Because I can get in my Volkswagen and drive the 168 miles on  
Interstate 77 in 2 hours 30 minutes in spite of Ohio's overly  
aggressive State Troopers.
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I have a timetable for Feb 1946 when the bus line was still Penn Ohio which was later taken over by Greyhound.  Cleveland-Marietta was 7 hours then. But you stopped at every place along the way.  And the bus ran everyday.  People still worked 6 days a week.


 
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