[PRCo] Re: Glassport Loop

[Dwight Long]

FWS

To you and Ed, maybe, but I'll bet not a whole lot more.

Dwight

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Schneider" <fwschneider at comcast.net>
To: <pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org>
Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 7:31 PM
Subject: [PRCo] Re: Glassport Loop


> You know you are preaching to choir again Dwight.
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> On Apr 30, 2012, at 6:07 PM, Dwight Long wrote:
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>> 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!   :<)
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>>>> 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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