[PRCo] Re: Question about 69 Squirrel Hill Route

[John Swindler]

  Or the writer was being sarcastic.  > Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 08:23:11 -0700
> From: pcc_sr at yahoo.com
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Question about 69 Squirrel Hill Route
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
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> Mr.Brashear,
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> This leaves much to speculation doesn't it.  One wonders:
> Did Prc not run any 58-line service in the AM rush?
> Did they run one-way only during the rush hours?  The
> news reports suggests this is not true.
> If there is not enough ridership in the rush hours, how
> could there be sufficient at other times?
> If "decade" is not an exaggeration this "service" or lack
> thereof began in 1937, before WW2.  I thought war
> demands might need equipment elsewhere.  This is also
> the tail end of the Great Depression isn't it.  Maybe
> ridership had dropped significantly in rush hours.
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> This is a very interesting find.
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> Phil
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Derrick Brashear <shadow at gmail.com>
> To: pittsburgh-railways at dementix.org
> Cc: 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 1, 2012 8:38 PM
> Subject: [PRCo] Re: Question about 69 Squirrel Hill Route
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> Not really related:
> http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mvUaAAAAIBAJ&sjid=40wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4977,2388619&dq=pittsburgh-railways+69+squirrel&hl=en
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> scroll to the bottom; a complaint about service on route 58.
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> Derrick
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