[PRCo] Re: Cleveland

[Herb Brannon]

The actual goal was to p!$$ off the Allegheny County Government. There was
pressure to remove the tracks from Ross and Forbes inasmuch as they were
not being used. PATransit made use of them, at least for a short period of
time. Sometime after the re-route ended the tracks were paved over.
Community College of Allegheny County, true. I've gotten used to CCC, here
in OH..........just a slip of the tongue in making it ACCC.

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Derrick Brashear <shadow at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Herb Brannon <hrbran at cavtel.net> wrote:
>
> > Another thing I did was go to citizens groups to answer questions on new
> or
> > existing service. These were mostly church groups and they complained a
> > lot. A much better audience I confronted were  the students at the Boyce
> > Campus of Allegheny County Community College. Myself and another guy,
> > (Arthur Carter) who began working in SRP when I did, went to ACC on
> several
> > occasions to talk with students on the new services PATransit was
> > instituting to that campus.
>
> That'd be CCAC.
>
> >
> > I worked on one streetcar routing change. That was sending the
> 49-Arlington
> > Warrington on a new Sunday/Holiday downtown loop. The normal 49 loop was
> > Ft. Pitt, Grant, Liberty, Wood, Ft. Pitt. We tested and, for a short
> time,
> > put into service Smithfield, 4th, Ross, Forbes, Grant, Liberty, Wood, Ft.
> > Pitt. It lasted a few months until bus drivers coming inbound on Forbes
> > claimed the streetcar sitting on Forbes near Grant caused a safety
> problem
> > since they had to squeeze by between the curb and the trolley.
>
> the goal being to provide more sunday connection possibilities?
>
>
>
> --
> Derrick
>
>
>


-- 
Herb Brannon
In Cuyahoga Valley National Park