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[Herb Brannon]

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote:
Herb:

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> Do you have any numbers for average weekday riding on both Shaker Rapid
> and CTS Rapid for whatever might might be the peak year in the 1950s?
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I have the figures from 1913 to 1993. This would be Cleveland Railway Co.
from 1913 to 1943. Cleveland Transit System from 1943 to 1975 and GCRTA
from 1975 to 1993. The only Shaker Heights Rapid Transit numbers given in
the chart are in the early years when it operated with CRC crews and then
from 1975 onward when it became part of GCRTA. I am trying to locate the
SHRT figures from around 1931 to 1975.

BTW, while 1950 was the year that the city of Cleveland saw it's peak
population within the city limits, it was not the peak year for transit
ridership in Cleveland. When I locate the SHRT figures I will post.

-- 
Herb Brannon
In Cuyahoga Valley National Park