[PRCo] Re: West Carson Street

[Edward H. Lybarger]

Somewhere I saw an article that said PRC acknowledged to (I believe) the
Allegheny Conference in 1949 that they would not be operating streetcars
over the new bridge.  I fervently wish I could find the reference, because
it would demonstrate that the later commotion about replacing money-losing
West End trolley routes with buses was a bunch of crocodile tears designed
to get someone else to pay for the buses and let PRC of easy on the paving
obligations.

Ed

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[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org] On Behalf Of George
W. Gula
Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 10:55 AM
To: Pittsburgh Railways
Subject: [PRCo] West Carson Street

I think we're going too far with this thing. If the intersection was being
ripped up anyway so the normal curves could be replaced, perhaps the PRCo
was covering all bases by putting extra rails in at that time. After all,
the rennessaince was already being discussed and that would have included
the Fort Pitt Bridge. Perhaps they just wanted extra flexibilty to shift
cars around as the new bridge was being built. No one could have foreseen
that the trolleys would have been banned from the bridge in 1949.
George