[PRCo] Skybus Should be Ready in '64

[Fred Schneider]

http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=w8EbAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Ck8EAAAAIBAJ&pg=5369%2C4864617
 Pittsburgh Press, August 30, 1963, page 4 (digital) or page 6 (print)

                                                                     ’64 Fair to Show ‘Sky Bus’ Transit

‘Birth Of A New Industry’ Proclaimed

By County Leaders At Ground Breaking

The new three-million dollar South Park “Sky-bus” transit system will be ready for riding within a year.

 County Commissioner William D. McClelland predicts that visitors at next year’s County Fair will be treated to a “real rapid transit thrill.”

 The ground-breaking for the electronically controlled “Sky-bus” line was held yesterday at the fairgrounds.

 Officials said they are hopeful the ceremonies marks “birth of a new industry in this area.”

    The “Sky-bus” will be built and tested by Westinghouse Electric Corp. with the aid of Federal and County governments.

    It’ll be an experimental line running from the Joyce Kilmer Circle on Corrigan Drive to the fairgrounds.

    Plans call for constructing an elevated roadway and running low-cost automated transit vehicles on it.

    If things work out the way scientists and engineers expect, the South Park “Sky-bus” may be a model for transit networks in major cities throughout the country.

    “Millions of dollars will be spent in the future on the modernization of old fashioned transportation systems in urban centers,” said Judge Loran L. Lewis, chairman of the County Port Authority.

    By pioneering better ways of transporting people, he added, the Pitts burgh district stands to share in an enterprise which will provide jobs and economic security for thousands of local workers.