[PRCo] Re: Streetcars in the Strip District?

[Paul Steven]

Fred, Dwight,

I had a sausage, egg, beans, bacon, mushroom, fried tomato breakfast at a 
Wimpy (kind of like an upscale McDonalds) this morning. Even had hash browns 
as a nod across the Atlantic. Just double (or triple?) the quantities and It 
is an "engine mans breakfast" in a neighbouring town, so I guess it's not 
entirely off topic.
-- 
Paul

On Monday 29 Aug 2011 17:32:34 Dwight Long wrote:
> Fred
> 
> Maybe better with bangers & mash?
> 
> Dwight
> 
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Fred Schneider
>   To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
>   Sent: Monday, 29 August, 2011 11:02
>   Subject: [PRCo] Re: Streetcars in the Strip District?
> 
> 
>   Jolly good.   Where in England.   There are at least two Anglophiles on
> Derricks list.   If I say only John Swindler and myself, then the others
> will complain.   I've been in Britain 18 times between 1959 and 2004. John
> Swindler is the product of a Pittsburgh area father and a British mum from
> World War II.   I think he still keeps in touch with the cousins in
> Britain.
> 
>   Perhaps I should take this off list.   After all it is a Pittsburgh /
> Western Pennsylvania traction list.  However, over time many of us have
> gotten to be close friends.   While I have not personally met everyone on
> the list, I have broken bread with a lot of them.   I like to think of the
> list as family.  So I do not get offended if the subject varies and I've
> been known to post foreign (to us) stuff to the list just to try to get
> people to think outside our comfortable box.   (And I have a wife who
> understands that a broiled tomato goes with streaky and eggs for breakfast
> ... she has been known to do it on occasion.)
> 
>   On Aug 28, 2011, at 7:58 PM, Paul June 29, 1925:  The Santa Barbara 
(California) Earthquake made a real mess of downtown.    wrote:
>   > I haven't posted since April, but I have been here before. I live in
>   > England, but have an interest in trams and trolleys and have
>   > contributed to the Wikipedia article on Pittsburgh Railways, after
>   > visiting the city in 2004. I don't often have anything to say, but
>   > stumbled on the article below when trying to identify a bridge closed
>   > at weekends in downtown.
>   > 
>   > On Monday 29 Aug 2011 00:23:47 Fred Schneider wrote:
>   >> Please introduce yourself to those of us who have been on the list for
>   >> years.   I never saw the name Paul Steven before.
>   >> 
>   >> Fred Schneider
>   >> Lancaster, PA
>   >> (Ex patriot Pittsburgher ... ex in 1949)
>   >> 
>   >> On Aug 28, 2011, at 6:42 AM, Paul Steven wrote:
>   >>> So you guys are thinking of putting streetcars back in the Strip?
>   >>> 
>   >>> "Consultants wanted for streetcar plan
>   >>> 
>   >>> By Bill Vidonic
>   >>> PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
>   >>> Friday, August 26, 2011
>   >>> 
>   >>> Pittsburgh is looking for consultants to help plan a streetcar system
>   >>> and other transportation improvements within the Strip District,
>   >>> which could include an incline connecting the Strip with the Hill
>   >>> District.
>   >>> 
>   >>> "I'm hoping this will be realistic as possible," said Becky Rodgers,
>   >>> executive director of Neighbors in The Strip. "Will everything that's
>   >>> in this study come out? You don't know, but it's a great starting
>   >>> point."
>   >>> 
>   >>> The city hopes to hire consultants by November. They will spend six
>   >>> months devising transportation plans and how to pay for them. City
>   >>> officials have said a streetcar system could cost at least $25
>   >>> million.
>   >>> 
>   >>> Consultants will be paid up to $345,000 by the city and PennDOT
>   >>> through the Pennsylvania Community Transportation Initiative.
>   >>> 
>   >>> That planning work likely would tie into the bigger Allegheny
>   >>> Riverfront Vision plan. The city in February announced that project,
>   >>> which aims to reconnect the Strip District, Lawrenceville,
>   >>> Morningside and Highland Park to 6.5 miles of redeveloped
>   >>> riverfront.
>   >>> 
>   >>> "We've seen a lot of positive movement recently in the Strip
>   >>> District," Mayor Luke Ravenstahl said in a prepared statement. "New
>   >>> transportation improvements will build on this momentum by providing
>   >>> residents with better transit options and more
>   >>> bike/pedestrian-friendly ways to get in and around the
>   >>> neighborhood."
>   >>> 
>   >>> The initiative is focusing on the Strip District between 11th and
>   >>> 40th streets, and possible improvements include the streetcar
>   >>> system, the incline, bikeway work along Penn Avenue and a new
>   >>> transit station for development along the Martin Luther King Jr.
>   >>> East Busway at 21st Street.
>   >>> 
>   >>> The deadline for consultants to submit qualifications to the city's
>   >>> Planning Department is noon Sept. 23. The detailed qualification
>   >>> request is available at www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us/cp."