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[Jim Holland]

Bob Murphy is a native of San Francisco, has worked the PCCs here in the 
1970s, then moved to the OutBack of Australia where he worked as trucker 
and Editor of a magazine for heavy equipment.     He is a Very Colorful 
individual and a born leader.     On another list a topic came up 
concerning the Muni where we tried to solve a Muni Problem.     WithOut 
fanfare he moderated all the posts and was Very Positive in the way he 
addressed all emails  --  it was like a Committee At Work  --  People 
who Never Participated Before Nor Since chimed in and it was a truly 
exhilarating experience.
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I haven't seen him use Expletives before  --  Anyhoooo,  I hope you get 
as much of a chuckle out of this as I did - A~M~!~!~!
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--- "Bob Murphy" <isedit at ...> wrote:

The mind boggles. The community has enough clout to get track and 
overhead renewed on a streetcar line that has not run in 15 years but 
not enough clout to get a couple of streetcars sent down the line?

WTF?

There's more here than meets the eye (or the mind of the slack assed 
journalist who wrote the piece).

RT Murphy

--- "Peter Folger" transitman@ wrote:
> >
> > 
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20070908_New_trolley_tracks_set_for_Germantown_Ave_.html
> >
> > Posted on Sat, Sep. 8, 2007
> >
> > New trolley tracks set for Germantown Ave.
> >
> > By Paul Nussbaum
> >
> > Inquirer Staff Writer
> >
> > As part of a year-long reconstruction of Germantown Avenue, crews 
> will install new trolley tracks and overhead electrical wires, though 
> the Route 23 trolley has been out of service for 15 years. "The 
> community wanted the tracks to remain, so the infrastructure will be 
> there if the service is ever restored," said Eugene Blaum, a spokesman 
> for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
> >
> > SEPTA has made no decision to restore the long-dormant service, said 
> spokesman Richard Maloney. But "we're not closing the door," Maloney said.
> >
> > Reconstruction will begin the week of Sept. 17 on a half-mile section 
> of Germantown Avenue between Allens Lane and Mermaid Lane. The $17 
> million project is scheduled to be completed in November 2008.
> >
> > First, utility lines will be replaced under the avenue, and then, in 
> early 2008, the road will be closed, one block at a time, to rebuild 
> the surface.
> >
> > Crews will rebuild the road and install new granite curbing and 
> eight-foot-wide granite-block shoulders. They will install a new 
> concrete road, with new trolley tracks between the granite-block 
> shoulders.
> >
> > The crews also will build new sidewalks and install new street 
> lights, plant trees, and repair the stone arch bridge over Cresheim Creek.
> >
> > The demise of the Route 23 trolley has long been a sore point for 
> local residents. When SEPTA stopped regular trolley service in 1992 
> and replaced the trolleys with buses, it said the cut was temporary.
> >
> > Limited trolley service continued in Chestnut Hill and West Mount 
> Airy until 1996.




-- 
*Jim Holland*

Studying *Pittsburgh Railways Company*

....................From 1930 -- 1950

*Pennsylvania Trolley Museum (PTM)*

http://www.pa-trolley.org/

*N.M.R.A.*

http://www.nmra.org/