[PRCo] Re: PATrain

[Derrick Brashear]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 11:47 PM, John Swindler <j_swindler at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>  The migration away from the river bottoms started several decades before the auto.  That's why Pittsburgh had inclines and cable car lines.  My ancestors moved from the lower Hill to Oakland around 1890, over a decade before the Model T appeared.  And the towns were in the river bottoms because that is where the rivers were for barge traffic.  The railroads came later. But you are right about the word "convenient".  That's how the auto won the competition with mass transit - except when it is not "convenient" such as too many autos.

Or you're blind/handicapped/inebriated/underaged/etc.


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Derrick