[PRCo] Re: Anti-Streetcar Anne X. Alpern

[Schneider Fred]

Keep reading.   You will get to the part where her successor, Mrs. Fi  
nkelhor (a great name) admits that she opposed allowing Pittsburgh  
Railways convert any money losing operations until after the county  
condemned it in 1964 because it would lower the amount that the  
county would have to pay.    Her object was to force the company to  
lose money. One example were the abandonment hearings for the Castle  
Shannon Incline which dragged on for months with Mrs. Finkelhor  
opposing it.   Of course, within perhaps days after PAT took over,  
that incline quit running.

Jim Shuman was remarked to me that the Post Gazette had an impeccable  
talent for photographing Charles Palmer with a frown on his face in  
order to stir public sentiment against the Railways Company.


On Nov 30, 2009, at 3:00 PM, Barry, Matthew R wrote:

> Anne X. Alpern was a real charmer, wasn't she?
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