[PRCo] Re: PATransit East Busway

[Fred Schneider]

And it said eastern suburbs of Allegheny County so that is obviously excluding the WCTA routes (i.e. the old Lincoln Coach and what evolved out of it).   


On Dec 16, 2011, at 2:24 PM, Derrick Brashear wrote:

> you found an answer which may have been correct for some point in
> time. there's no date there.
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> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Herb Brannon <hrbran at cavtel.net> wrote:
>> Found the answer on the "Pittsburgh Highways" website:
>> This busway serves downtown Pittsburgh, East End, and the eastern suburbs
>> of Allegheny County.  The average rider ship for routes using the busway
>> are 30,000 daily and 7.5 million a year.   It is designed for speeds up to
>> 55 MPH, lower speed limits are applied in some twists in the valley.
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>> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 17:09, Herb Brannon <hrbran at cavtel.net> wrote:
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>>> There still has to be an "average" number of passengers carried each
>>> weekday on the East Busway on all routes. The average number of light rail
>>> passengers (from all rail routes) is over 24,000 per day. I just need to
>>> know the "KISS" rough average of all passengers carried on the East Busway.
>>> Where they come from makes no difference.
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>>> The PATransit website gives light rail and "total" bus (all routes
>>> systemwide) figures for each day but does not break down the difference
>>> between local bus, express, and Busway daily totals.
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>>> On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 15:18, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote:
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>>>> That would be difficult to ascertain because, unlike the Newark City
>>>> Subway today and more like the subway as original configured, the East
>>>> Busway is a funnel for many routes in the east end.
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>>>> Are you trying to find a number for simply the passengers who board at
>>>> stations along the busway, or board downtown and get off along the busway?
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>>>> Or are you looking for a total of all riders on the routes that use the
>>>> busway, which would be much larger number?   If you want everything using
>>>> the busway, you have to consider multiple agencies Herb.   Westmoreland
>>>> County Transit Authority buses running into Pittsburgh also use the busway.
>>>>   It is not limited to just PAT routes.
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>>>> On Dec 15, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:
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>>>>> Does anyone know the average daily ridership on the East Busway?
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>>>>> Herb Brannon
>>>>> In Cuyahoga Valley National Park
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>>> Herb Brannon
>>> In Cuyahoga Valley National Park
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