[PRCo] Re: Transit evolution

[Edward H. Lybarger]

The 1919 trip was assuredly the motivation for the Interstate Highway
System.  It's well-documented in the recent (2-4 years ago?) book on the
subject.

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[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of Fred
Schneider
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 8:43 PM
To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Transit evolution


ONLY 25 MINUTES BETTER THAN THE 1930 TRAIN SCHEDULE!

I guess I need to research the legislation that created the
Interstate Highway System that Dwight Eisenhower signed into law in
1954.   Without any additional background information, I cannot help
but be lead or mislead to conclude that Ike's military convoy by
truck across the United States that took two months in 1919 and was
done to demonstrate a need for good highways stuck with him lock
afterward and may have lead him to support the Federal Interstate
Highway Program.

I can remember numerous family vacations in the 1940s and 1950s when
we averaged 30 miles per hour.   I can remember one incredibly long
day when we left a cousin's home in Palos Park, Illinois, just off
route 30 southwest of Chicago, early one morning and dragged into the
grandparent's home in Marietta, Ohio at 2 AM the next morning, having
inched along route 30 through Fort Wayne and Lima and then down to
Columbus and Zanesville and then down along the Muskingum River after
midnight.    And then I think after Interstate Highways, driving from
Palo Alto CA to Salt Lake City in the same time and from Grand Island
NE to Lancaster PA from 9 AM one day to lunch time the next day.

On Mar 9, 2007, at 8:17 PM, Bill Robb wrote:

> 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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