[PRCo] Re: Port Authority- PAT and T Riders

[Jerry MATT Matsick]

Phil
I would imagine the ridership of the PAT and especially the T has gone up quite a bit
since this terrible GAS crunch has hit the WORLD!   Any one have figures if in
fact the amount of riders has increased, I heard figures for other cities and was 
wondering if it is true in Pittsburgh.
Jerry Matsick
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>From the RIVER CITY by the Sea! 
Jerry "Matt" Matsick 
J A C K S O N V I L L E, Florida ! 


-------------- Original message from Phillip Clark Campbell <pcc_sr at yahoo.com>: -------------- 


> I just stumbled across this didn't I - just stumbled across it. 
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> http://www.townhall.com/columnists/BillSteigerwald/2008/06/02/the_bankruptcy_of_ 
> mass_transit?page=full&comments=true 
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> Here is a quote from above: 
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> "A while ago I came across some figures for the Port Authority from the 
> early 1980s. Ridership then was about 100 million a year; it had about 
> 2,800 employees, almost 1,000 buses and about 90 trolleys. In 2006 it 
> had about 3,000 employees, about 1,000 buses and 80 light-rail cars. 
> Its budget had gone up 42 percent faster than inflation since 1982 -- 
> but they were carrying 70 million people instead of 100 million. They 
> had lost 30 percent of their business yet everything stayed the same -- 
> and no one even notices this." 
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