[PRCo] Fwd: Pittsburgh 1948 - Part 5: East End - Second Avenue

[Bill]

--- In LRPPro at yahoogroups.com, "Leroy W. Demery, Jr."
<chris_demery at ...> wrote:

Lyndon et al.,

Continuing with Pittsburgh streetcar line traffic data from 1948:

Part 5 - Second Avenue (East End) lines

55 - 55A - 57 East Pittsburgh via Second Avenue
13.6 miles (Route 55 - Homestead-East Pittsburgh)
8,049,000 revenue passengers

56 - McKeesport via Second Avenue
12.8 miles
7,163,000 revenue passengers

58 - Greenfield
4.9 miles
2,100,000 revenue passengers

Summary, Second Avenue lines
22.2 miles system length (unduplicated).
17,312,000 revenue passengers.

Yes, Ed, I remember from the previous discussion that some of the
"revenue passengers" 
are actually zone passengers. Thus, I used 6.5 million "total"
passengers for Route 56, 
from when we discussed this previously. I scaled this up a bit, to 7.3
million "total" 
passengers, for route 55 (which was longer than route 56). Then, I
multiplied the Route 58 
revenue passenger figure by 1.33 (as I have generally done so far).
Result: 16.6 million 
"total" passengers for the Second Avenue lines. 

Composite average travel distance (ATD) determined by assigning
average travel distance 
per revenue passenger to the lines as follows:

55 - 55A - 57 East Pittsburgh via Second Avenue: 3.5 mi. Scaled up a
bit from route 56.
56 - McKeesport via Second Avenue: 3.2 miles, from the previous 
58 - Greenfield: 3 miles.
The "weighted average" ATD is 3.3 miles.

(Whatever used to line Second Avenue between the eastern fringe of
downtown Pittsburgh 
and Hazelwood is "gone, gone, gone." There's not "a lot" of
development between the 
Monongahela River and Dravosburg. As for the line to East Pittsburgh,
I've read that some 
of those former industrial towns, e.g. Braddock, have many abandoned
buildings. Town 
governments can't afford to pay for demolition, so they stand, vacant.) 

Leroy W. Demery, Jr.

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