[PRCo] Fwd: Pittsburgh 1948 - Part 11: Shuttle Lines

[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 11 - Shuttle Lines (yes, this is posted "out of sequence"!)

9 - Charles Street Transfer
0.7 miles

17 - Reedsdale
0.8 miles

24 - Schoenville
1.5 miles

29 - Thornburg
1.4 miles

32 - P&LE Transfer
0.8 miles

51 - Bon Air
0.5 miles

52 - 36th and Carson Street
0.2 miles

63 - Corey Avenue
0.7 miles

78 - Laketon Road
0.7 miles

Summary, shuttle lines
7.1 miles system length (unduplicated).

Lougee reported 1,642,000 revenue passengers for "shuttle routes." But
the implied 
system length ("round trip miles" / 2) is 10.0 miles. This is almost 3
miles more than I 
determined (by measuring from the street map). Thus, I am led to
suspect that the "shuttle 
route" passenger statistic includes at least some of the passengers
carried by lines that 
were not worked (in 1948) as full-time shuttles: e.g. 81 Atwood
Street, 12 - Evergreen 
Road.

It would be interesting to have passenger traffic statistics for these
lines on an individual 
basis. Unfortunately, available data do not permit this. 

Most but not all of these lines served streets that no longer have
transit service.

Leroy W. Demery, Jr.

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