[PRCo] Re: West Carson Street

[Derrick Brashear]

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 8:02 PM, Herb Brannon <hrbran at cavtel.net> wrote:
> Question wasn't necessarily just for you. I always think in terms of any
> question submitted to The List being open to anyone who wants to answer.
> Thanks for the response though. You're the only one to give it a try. My
> copy is labeled "extra copy" and is originally from the PATransit library.
> So it would have been a final printing. Few transit items in the "study"
> seem to have come to pass during the PATransit period, however. Even many
> of the highway proposals failed to make it past the drawing board.

Yeah, I remember reading the Oakland connector study at CLP; would have gone
through Junction Hollow by CMU.

"Nope"

> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 19:45, robert netzlof <wb3iqe at rocketmail.com> wrote:
>
>> --- On Wed, 3/7/12, Herb Brannon <hrbran at cavtel.net> wrote:
>>
>> > Here's a scan of the front cover of
>> > Vol 2. It too has two cover letters.
>> > One is signed by Wade G Fox, Publications Supervisor and the
>> > other signed
>> > by Robert Kochanowski, Acting Study Director. The "Survey
>> > Office" was
>> > located at 14 Wood Street and their telephone number was
>> > EXpress 1-3850. My
>> > vol 2 has several maps with private right of way streetcar
>> > lines and what
>> > are termed "rapid transit" lines running jointly and also on
>> > individual.
>> > Could this be the Vol 2 referred to in Vol 1 or is this some
>> > different
>> > study?
>>
>> To quote Mark Twain:
>>
>> "I was pleased to answer promptly. I said I didn't know."
>>
>> A quick look at Pitt's library catalog turned up these two entries:
>>
>> Title:   Mass transportation study of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County /
>> prepared by Phillip Robinson ; consultants, John B. Ecker, Leslie Williams.
>> Author:         Robinson, Phillip, 1914-
>> Publisher:      [Pittsburgh?] : [s.n.], 1949.
>>
>> Call Number:    q HE4491.P62 R62 1949
>>
>> and:
>>
>> Title:   Report of Allegheny County Mass Transportation Study Committee.
>> Author:         Allegheny County Mass Transportation Study Committee.
>> Publisher:      [Pittsburgh, Pa. : The Committee, 1953]
>>
>> Call Number:    HE4491.P62 A445 1953
>>
>> Notes:   Title from label on cover.
>>        "May, 1953."
>>        Mimeographed.
>>
>> The report I have matches the description of the first item. The report
>> you have doesn't seem to match the second item. But perhaps Pitt got a
>> preprint of the report and PAT (and eventually you) got the spiffy
>> printed-with-real-type bound-in-boards final edition?
>>
>> In summary then, see Mark Twain's remark above.
>>
>> Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Herb Brannon
> In Cuyahoga Valley National Park
>
>
>



-- 
Derrick