[PRCo] Re: West Carson Street

[Edward H. Lybarger]

I like to interpret for people the fact that the only folks who ever made
any real money from public transit were the consultants.

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[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounce at lists.dementix.org] On Behalf Of Herb
Brannon
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 8:02 PM
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Subject: [PRCo] Re: West Carson Street

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.
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
>
>


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Herb Brannon
In Cuyahoga Valley National Park