[PRCo] Re: FW: Nice PA Trolley Museum article in today's Post-Gazette

Derrick Brashear shadow at gmail.com
Sun Aug 2 22:39:25 EDT 2009


On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Schneider Fred<fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:
> Yup.   We both know that.
>
> The issue isn't the 99 lines.   Who cars about that.
>
> The real issue is the cost of doing business.   If we don't try to
> educate the journalists and they in turn don't try to educate the
> public, does that presume that the public is brain dead?
>
> Perhaps you should not answer that.

If "education" makes it impossible for me to get places without
driving, I'd like to "educate" the "educators" under my front bumper.
Preferably at speed.

I had a pleasant lunch conversation today with someone about the
(WABCO) Metro Pittsburgh *didn't* get as a result of the Early Action
Program, how Skybus came to be, and how Scarborough RT was a ploy to
sell Skytrain to Vancouver. Don't get me wrong, I do wish for a little
more forethought and a little less afterthought in the world.




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