[PRCo] Re: Question about 69 Squirrel Hill Route

[Derrick Brashear]

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Dwight Long <dwightlong at verizon.net> wrote:
> Herb
>
> Your comments square 100% with my experience back in the 60s when I lived for a year in Brentwood.  I normally drove to Frederick Street and took the 37 for just those reasons (only issue was finding parking around the tram stop—standing was assumed).  In the latter stages of my wife’s pregnancy, she could not stand for the length of the ride and so I drove.  I took a route over the hill—can’t remember the street now but it went under one of the high trestles on Rt. 37

Bausman.

> and then up and over the hill—to avoid the Liberty Tubes, etc.  Came out on New Arlington Ave., down that and across the Smithfield Street Bridge to her office on Wood Street.  Then drove over to the North Side where I could park free (had a connection there) and either walked (in good weather) or took an inbound tram to the Stanwix/Liberty loop for my office in Gateway #4.

>
> Getting back to the tram when I moved much farther out to Bethel Park (Kings School Road stop) was a real relief from that regimen!

My relief is that our route will survive transit holocaust this fall,
because I'm not driving downtown, but, cessation of service past 10pm
is going to require driving downtown for shows (and my rules about
driving downtown is "don't") or biking... or punting, in case weather
precludes biking. A cancelled bus route is more likely to show up than
a cab.


-- 
Derrick