[PRCo] Fwd: Pittsburgh 1948 - Part 8: Centre Avenue (East End) 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 8: Centre Avenue (East End) lines

82 - Lincoln
7.2 miles
9,968,000 revenue passengers

85 - Bedford
2.5 miles
4,771,000 revenue passengers

Summary, Centre Avenue lines
8.6 miles system length (unduplicated).
14,739,000 revenue passengers.

19.6 million  "total passengers" (above figure multiplied by 1.33.)

Composite ATD: 3 miles. Determined by assigning average travel
distance per revenue 
passenger as follows:

82 - Lincoln: 3.5 miles.
85 - Bedford: 2.5 miles.
The "weighted average" is  3.2 miles (which is presented on the
"traffic density tables" as 
simply "3 mi.")

(Depopulation is visible in places along these two lines, but aerial
photos also show what 
looks like redevelopment.) 

Leroy W. Demery, Jr.

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