[PRCo] Re: Transit evolution

[John Swindler]

It's the convenience factor, Fred.



>From: Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: Transit evolution
>Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2007 20:42:35 -0500
>
>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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