[PRCo] Re: Woodruff Street to Mt. Washington Car Line

[Dwight Long]

George

Your conclusions seem reasonable.  On the other hand, there must have been some  business unique to the line as PRC substituted a bus.  Not enough, I suppose, to justify re-doing the track.  

Dwight

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: George W. Gula 
  To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org 
  Sent: Thursday, 14 April, 2011 10:22
  Subject: [PRCo] Re: Woodruff Street to Mt. Washington Car Line


  Concerning Route 33, I think the biggest reason for abandonment was the
  reconstruction of Banksville Road and Rte 51. Both these highways were
  county projects that were done in the early and middle 1930's and must have
  been in the planning phases by the time of the Route 33 discontinuance.

  Rt 33 had very little traffic that could not be served by West End Routes,
  Route 40, the Mon Incline, Duquesne Incline or the Castle Shannon Incline.
  All these routes provided direct or quicker service to downtown Pittsburgh.
  There was only a dozen or so homes located near Rt 51 between Woodruff
  Street and Banksville Road and a few more between Banksville and the West
  End lines coming in from Carnegie and Crafton, providing minimal business
  that could not have justified track relocation.

  George Gula