[PRCo] Re: Allegheny County's new Transit Development Plan

[Derrick Brashear]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Schneider Fred<fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:
> And who is Fred Mergner and if he is a railfan, why don't we have him
> in the museum and in this group of loony fellows?

He's this guy:
http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A26129

> Urban interstates?   Whole different issue than rural interstates.
> I truly love the scheme of mileage based exit numbers for rural
> interstates but it does fall apart in places when you are on things
> like the Roosevelt Highway in Manhattan or the Cross Bronx Expressway
> or the exits coming off either end of the San Francisco - Oakland Bay
> Bridge.   Jones Falls in Baltimore is another.   And Bob Rathke could
> cite the expressways in Chicago.

Well, when we applied it in Pennsylvania we applied it statewide. That
means that to get it on I-76 you also got it on I-83 (which isn't so
bad, near Harrisburg), and I got it on I-376 (which sucks for numbers
downtown, but now that I-376 will start in Sharon, well, the whole
situation is muddled)

> But for rural interstates, my personal conviction is that mileage
> based exit numbers is the best scheme the cat dragged home.   It's
> great to get on at 232 and know I can make it to 495 in about four
> hours with a heavy foot.

Dude, you clearly don't drive where I do. I get on at 232 and I'm
getting off at 495: what's under construction? Or I'm getting off at
11. In the next state, counting up. Where's the state line? Could be
at 233. Could be at 509.

Of course, that's a misnomer. I don't actually drive all that much
anymore anyway. I don't remember the last time I was as far east as
Monroeville. I suppose I've been to New Castle and the Trolley Museum,
recently. That's about it.


-- 
Derrick