[PRCo] Regent Square memories

[Edward H. Lybarger]

What I found most out of tune was the statement that trolleys had a design
flaw:  They "didn't actually share the road with other vehicles; they hogged
the road."  He conveniently and blissfully ignores the chronology of
things...it reads as if autos and trucks were always there in huge numbers.

And I doubt if he ever used a sound level meter to determine the loudness of
a trolley gong before he directly compared it to a bicycle bell.

He also got the date of the Port Authority takeover wrong by five years, but
who's counting time here?

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:pittsburgh-railways-bounces at mailman.dementix.org] On Behalf Of Fred
Schneider
Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2013 2:55 PM
To: Western PA Trolley discussion
Subject: Re: [PRCo] Regent Square memories

You think the biggest issue with it is comparing today's traffic from the
eastern suburbs to downtown with traffic then, which might have been very
heavily oriented to the mills in Homestead, Braddock, McKeesport, Wilmerding
and East Pittsburgh?   You think perhaps the new writers simply do not
understand  that the offices and stores were downtown then and the mills
were scattered all along the Allegheny, Ohio, Monogahela valleys and along
Chartiers and Turtle Creeks?



On Dec 8, 2013, at 10:38 AM, Edward H. Lybarger wrote:

> The writer is not doing the finest job of interpreting history in its 
> own time, is he?
> 
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> http://triblive.com/opinion/featuredcommentary/5150950-74/pittsburgh-s
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> The paper must have been looking for filler.
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> Dennis F. Cramer 
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