[PRCo] Re: Inbound // Outbound

[Ken and Tracie]

We still have a Downtown. The cross-town buses are routed through there to 
help justify the boondoggle Downtown Transportation Center, making 
cross-town trips a four hour or more ordeal.

K.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Schneider Fred" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 9:00 AM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Inbound // Outbound


> Well, Ken, when our cities have become so dispersed that there is no
> downtown, there can be no inbound!!!!   (I laughing and the hernia
> hurts.)
>
> On Mar 1, 2009, at 11:46 AM, Ken and Tracie wrote:
>
>> You rode the NSL, Milwaukee Road or C&NW "down" to Chicago, or "up" to
>> Milwaukee. Heading west from Lake Michigan was "out" and heading east
>> towards the lake was "in".
>>
>> I called the local transit system here in Las Vegas two weeks ago and
>> inquired about an "inbound" Route 106. The twenty-something woman
>> paused and
>> then asked, "Do you mean 'southbound'?"
>>
>> I'm getting old..........
>>
>> K.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Bill Robb" <bill937ca at yahoo.ca>
>> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org>
>> Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 1:03 PM
>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Inbound // Outbound
>>
>>
>>> It's not just inbound/outbound. Most companies designated a
>>> direction "up"
>>> or "down" as internal working policy. Transfers on some properties
>>> showed
>>> the direction of travel as up or down, marking the direction of
>>> travel
>>> without the public knowing what was going on.
>>> Bill
>>>
>>> This is a  'curiosity'  item -- trivia question -- even  'nit-
>>> picking'
>>> inquiry.  Direction
>>> of trolleys on  'city routes'  generally inbound heading to
>>> downtown hub
>>> and outbound
>>> heading away from the same.  What about Interurbans?  By
>>> definition they
>>> travel
>>> between at least two  'cities'  don't they so direction could be
>>> considered  'relative to'
>>> any one of them.  Bottom line would find the Interurbans based in
>>> one city
>>> so direction
>>> could be considered relative to it -- i.e., the PRC Washington
>>> Interurban
>>> would be
>>> 'Inbound'  heading to Pgh. because that is where the interurban is
>>> based.
>>>
>>> Is there any  'official'  protocol for designating interurban
>>> direction?
>>> Is compass direction preferred for interurbans?
>>>
>>>
>>> Phil
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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