[PRCo] Re: Transit evolution

[Ken & Tracie]

Yes....when I gave the book to one of my brothers (an urban planner) as a 
Christmas gift, I included a folder containing an article written by a 
traction historian (maybe you or Fred, I forget who wrote it) showing the 
other side of the debate.

This was a few years before I met either one of you. The author of the 
article may have been a West Coast person. I simply can't recall.

If I had known "senior moments" were contagious, maybe I would have avoided 
meeting Fred the Third altogether! ;-)


K.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Edward H. Lybarger" <trams2 at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 18, 2007 7:33 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Transit evolution


> The only problem I have with Goddard's "Getting There" is his chapter 7, 
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> which he gives far too much credit for the demise of trolley systems to 
> "The
> Conspiracy."
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org
> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementia.org]On Behalf Of
> Dennis F. Cramer
> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 1:06 PM
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Transit evolution
>
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> Two books I recommend on the transit evolution are:
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> "Getting There, The Epic Struggle between Road and Rail in the American
> Century" by Stephen Goddard
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> "The Federal Role in Urban Mass Transportation" by George M Smerk
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> A third deals with the development of organized labor in the transit
> industry:
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> "Trolley Wars, Streetcar Workers on the Line" by Scott Molloy
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> Dennis Fred Cramer
>     Trombone
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