[PRCo] Re: Pittsburgh - think tank blasts possible new transit taxes

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Joshua Dunfield wrote:

>> There's no good way to get from Highland Park to the Cardello Building,
>> for instance. In fact, there's largely no good way to get to the Cardello
>> Building. Yet it's an office building. A lot of people work there.
>
> Oh, sure, there's a need for *new* routes, but the original criticism,
> as I understood it, was that the old routes are still there.

Well, if you put the routes that should be there in, do you still need the 
old ones?

> Barring complete economic collapse and the End of Pittsburgh As We Know It,
> the 71A will continue to be a high-demand route partly because it still
> makes sense abstractly and partly because people expect it to be.

Sure.

Do you think we need a 56 and a 61 going to McKeesport?

Just because two carlines did doesn't mean we need it now. How much local 
ridership do you think there is between Interboro Ave and McKeesport? 
Sadly, that's the faster route, but then they ran the express along the 
old rail line, making 3 routes...