[PRCo] Re: West Carson Street

[Derrick Brashear]

If they did, I bet it would be in here:
Mass transportation study of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County, Volume 1
http://books.google.com/books?id=xWpAAAAAIAAJ&q=%22allegheny+conference%22+%22point+bridge%22+1949&dq=%22allegheny+conference%22+%22point+bridge%22+1949&hl=en&sa=X&ei=QqdPT_epOsiJsQKI68XADg&ved=0CEYQ6AEwAQ

On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Edward H. Lybarger <trams2 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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.
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> Ed
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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 George
> W. Gula
> Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 10:55 AM
> To: Pittsburgh Railways
> Subject: [PRCo] West Carson Street
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> 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
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Derrick