[PRCo] Re: Rt 52 and extension to Hays

Derrick Brashear shadow at gmail.com
Tue Apr 17 14:54:37 EDT 2012


On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Regarding Art Ellis's study that no one rode the bus ... if you look at Penn Pilot's 1940 map, you will find about 25 houses between 30th and 36th Streets.

"Williamsburg". There were, oddly, a large number of maps of this area
in the P&LE collection I looked at a couple weeks ago, a number of
them well before the area was
doomed because of the J&L expansion.

>   Today there are none.   Should I act surprised.   Actually, there are jobs there today.

Including the FBI building. That said, the last bus that served the
area, and Becks Run Rd, and the Spencer, Willet and Churchview areas,
was cut in the last round of cuts.
And then Becks Run Road was under construction for months. Enjoy your commute.

> Can we put this to sleep now?????????

Have you noticed that we beat things to death here? I'm gonna go with "no".


-- 
Derrick




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