[PRCo] Re: New York Times Streetcar Article

[Schneider Fred]

Except that in terms of unemployment and employment, Harrisburg is as  
good as any place.   The areas east and south of the mountains in  
Pennsylvania (and outside of Philadelphia County) have since the  
1960s had a better economic picture than the national averages.  They  
still do.   Seasonally-adjusted unemployment in Harrisburg-Carlisle  
was 4.4 percent in June, the USA rate was 5.5.  Perhaps the Inquirer  
just wanted to make someplace else seem worse than Philadelphia?

Certainly the city of Harrisburg has its bad neighborhoods.   Inner  
Susquehanna Township is not too great.  Parts of Steelton leave  
something to be desired.   But remember my earlier point that capital  
cities have always been a magnet for people who could find work  
elsewhere, particularly minority races and ethnicities.

Hartford's rate was 5.7 on an unadjusted basis in June -- identical  
to the national rate.


On Aug 19, 2008, at 6:11 PM, Richard Allman wrote:

> what about our great state capital city? Unless I'm missing  
> something, it's
> still a dump. A few years ago the Inquirer ran an article entitled  
> something
> like "Harrisburg:Is this any place to have a state capital?" and  
> subtitled
> "not  even a nice place to visit" (as oppposed to places that are  
> nowhere to
> live but nice enough to visit.) Then a litany of what ailed.  
> Haven't been in
> the city since Fred Schneider's retirement do, but his departure  
> cannot
> possibly have helped matters! Then there's Hartford, Conn, a ontime  
> very
> pleasant , vibrant place which is now downright scary-I was there a  
> couple
> years ago and it's really hit the skids. As one involved in  
> healthcare,
> trust me it takes more than hospitals to sustain a region. Richmond  
> VA has
> seen better times as well. And Charleton, W Va-did it ever flourish?
>
> RICH
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Derrick J Brashear" <shadow at dementia.org>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 3:25 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: New York Times Streetcar Article
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>
>> On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Joshua Dunfield wrote:
>>
>>> On 2008-08-17, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>  The only state capital that comes to my mind that is having
>>>>  real economic problems is Trenton NJ, which for years had a  
>>>> sign on
>>>>  the bridge over the Delaware River that read, TRENTON MAKES, THE
>>>>  WORLD TAKES.
>>>
>>> The sign's still there; you can see it from the R7/Amtrak.
>>
>> DRJTC (I think, rather than DRPA) owns the bridge, and it's
>> "toll-supported" unlike the adjacent US1 highway bridge.
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