[PRCo] Re: Glassport Loop

[Fred Schneider]

You know you are preaching to choir again Dwight.   


On Apr 30, 2012, at 6:07 PM, Dwight Long wrote:

> 
> Fred
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> But in "the failing Socialist European Countries"  so vilified by the right 
> wing talking heads, the roads in general are glass smooth--and their public 
> transport systems work.
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> Dwight
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 4:36 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Glassport Loop
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>> Everywhere....
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>> My last two drives across the U. S. showed roads in all states in worse 
>> condition than I ever saw them before.
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>> On Apr 30, 2012, at 3:53 PM, Barry, Matthew R wrote:
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>>> I know.   Our infrastructure is hurting.  Aside from public 
>>> transportation, I haven't seen bridges and streets in the condition that 
>>> they are in, in quite a long time.
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org 
>>> [mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org] On Behalf Of Fred 
>>> Schneider
>>> Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 3:47 PM
>>> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
>>> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Glassport Loop
>>> 
>>> Vote 'publican and lose more service!   :<)
>>> 
>>> There was a great young lady who worked for me.  She left labor and 
>>> industry and moved over to Department of Education to get a promotion. 
>>> A few weeks ago I had lunch with her ... you know the kind ... the 
>>> daughter you wish you had.   Now she told me that they have not hired 
>>> anyone in her department since her.   It is always easy to find money to 
>>> hire consultants to do the work but there is no money to hire people on 
>>> the state payroll.   Why?   The consultants can be told to give money 
>>> back to the reelection campaigns if they are hired but you cannot legally 
>>> torque an employees arm.
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>>> On Apr 30, 2012, at 3:10 PM, Barry, Matthew R wrote:
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>>>> Right now, it looks like I'll be losing service to the Homestead 
>>>> Park(Munhall) Lincoln Place area come this September.   After years and 
>>>> years of bus service and streetcar (route 65 Munhall), we'll have to 
>>>> walk a few miles either to 8th Ave in Homestead for a bus, or to Mifflin 
>>>> Road, in the opposite direction.
>>>> Then, I recalled that, as of last year, the people of Glassport were 
>>>> left without any service as well.
>>>> 
>>>> From the streetcar years:
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>>>> http://www.liquala.com/pcc-307.html
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