[PRCo] Fwd: Re: [LRPPro] Pittsburgh 1948 - Part 3

[Bill]

--- In LRPPro at yahoogroups.com, stennyson at ... wrote:

 Please go back and recalculate ATM the average trip length.
  Routes 2 and 3 were almost sterile from 2 to 4 miles east of downtown.
The river was on one side and Route 4 was on the other side close but on
top of a cliff with very little population in between.
   The West End was similar with a long dead stretch along West Carson
Street from the Point Bridge to the West End traffic interchange where
the routes branched off.
   The Sewickley route did not get much through travel as alternative
limited stop exurban bus lines and the railroads served faster but Route
23 served Neville Island 
which was then loaded with industry. Routes 25 and 26  skimmed off two
thirds of the shorter trips. I  am pretty sure  Route 23 would have had
about 6 miles per trip, In 1949 I made the abandonment study for Route
23 west of Neville Island and I found it incrementally profitable, The
pre-war 1941 Reorganization Plan had put it up for abandonment prior to
gasollne rationing but war had swollen the ridership, 1946 was the
highest year for riders.       
   Management did not want to fight witn Wall Street speculators
(Guggenheim) or City lawyers which wanted rail lines abandoned so they
let Sewickley go west of Nevllle Island to minimize legal battles.
   Routes 27 and 28 also had much longer rides,  They served Carnegie
and Heidelburg with very thin population between Crafton and Carnegie. I
am sure the ATM would be at least 4 miles.  
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