[PRCo] Cleveland Tidbits

Mon Dec 16 13:42:02 EST 2013

Here's the current version of the story, from VTA in the Bay Area.

http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_24429126/homeless-turn-overnight-bus-route-into-hotel-22

On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote:

> I recall a similar story from Chicago that made the media.   Might have
> even made Life magazine.
>
>
> On Dec 15, 2013, at 10:15 PM, Dwight Long wrote:
>
> >
> > Fred
> >
> > I remember back in the day (the day being the early 50s) there was an
> article in the Pittsburgh Press about a homeless woman who spent her nights
> on PRC owl cars.  She was quoted as saying they were warmer and safer than
> any alternative she could afford.
> >
> > There was no comment made that I can recall in the article about
> “sanitary” or bathing facilities.
> >
> > Dwight
> >
> > From: Fred Schneider
> > Sent: Sunday, 15 December, 2013 19:25
> > To: Western PA Trolley discussion
> > Subject: Re: [PRCo] Cleveland Tidbits
> > You prompted me to look, Herb, to see if GCRTS still has owl service and
> I was astonished to see that it does.   I only checked two major routes …
> St. Clair and Superior but found hourly service including weekends.
>  Amazing.
> >
> > Makes me wonder how many cities still have owl service.
> >
> > To take this back to the list, I remember my dad telling me that
> Pittsburgh Railways once had hourly service on all the major car lines with
> everything meeting downtown all night long on the hour so you could make
> transfers.   He used it every night to get back to Oakland from his girl
> friend on the north side until the girl's mom decided she wasn't going to
> get rid of this guy and decided to take him in as a boarder … if you can't
> get rid of the boy friend you might as well make some money on the deal.
> (That great lady later became my grandma and his mother-in-law.)   Seems to
> me that all the major Pittsburgh car lines like the 8, 82, 88, 76, 71, 73 …
> I picking numbers that make sense without looking … had owl service through
> the 1950s and then PRC simply gave up.
> >
> > Makes me wonder how many cities still have all night transit service
> outside of New York, Cleveland, Chicago.   And how many outside of New York
> have all-night rail service.
> >
> > I understand your feelings about working on New Years Eve, Herb.   I
> have a friend who used to manage Deutschebahn's southern Bavaria region and
> I felt sorry for him during Oktoberfest.   Imagine having a job making sure
> your help gets the puke scrubbed out of all the commuter rolling stock so
> it can be used in the rush hour the next morning and that no one gets hurt
> by intoxicated riders.   Still, they are better on transit than killing
> people driving cars  (CDC statistics -- 2010 data -- showed 48% of all
> highway deaths were caused by alcohol and drugs).   But with statistics
> like that, if I made my living driving bus, I think I would want to have
> the flu on Dec. 31st.
> >
> > On Dec 15, 2013, at 6:12 PM, Herb Brannon wrote:
> >
> >> Three interesting items are in the current issue of Cleveland RTA
> e-news.
> >>
> >> The first deals with New Years Eve. It seems they have decided to run
> all
> >> light and heavy rails lines ALL NIGHT on December 31/January 1 for a big
> >> downtown New Years Eve party. I'm glad I'm here and not there.
> >>
> >> Second, is the rollout of the first of 40 rebuilt heavy rail cars for
> the
> >> Red Line.
> >>
> >>
> >> Third, the 100th anniversary of light rail rapid service is this month.
> The
> >> first section of what was to become Shaker Height Rapid Transit and RTA
> >> Green & Blue lines began December 17, 1913.
> >>
> >>> From the news letter: (Be advised three photos accompanied these news
> >> articles. They may or may not come through the Server For The List.)
> >> Rapids run all night on New Year's Eve, serve major party downtown Ride
> >> RTA to *Cleveland Rocks*, community celebration on Public Square with
> Drew
> >> Carey
> >>
> >> Comedian Drew Carey returns to his native Cleveland on Dec. 31, to
> >> host *Cleveland
> >> Rocks*, a New Year's Eve party on Public
> >> Square<
> http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=62511047&msgid=883868&act=NAHI&c=345125&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ohiohomecoming.com
> >.
> >> To better serve that party, and hundreds of other parties planned for
> that
> >> night, RTA will operate the Red, Blue and Green Rapid lines all night.
> That
> >> means there will be continuous rail service from the morning of Dec.
> >> 31through the evening of Jan.
> >> 1. Happy New Year!
> >>
> >> [image: Cleveland rocks, and on New Year's Eve, RTA will roll all night
> >> long. Let us be your designated
> >> driver!]<
> http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=62511047&msgid=883868&act=NAHI&c=345125&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ohiohomecoming.com
> >
> >>  Extreme makeover: First renovated Red Line rail car goes into service
> Entire
> >> fleet of 40 cars will be done within two years, preview impresses many
> >> customers
> >>
> >> RTA unveiled its first renovated Red Line
> >> car<
> http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=62511047&msgid=883868&act=NAHI&c=345125&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.riderta.com%2Fnews%2Fdec-10-11-rta-unveils-new-red-line-cars
> >on
> >> Dec. 10 at Tower City. Customers who saw the display were impressed
> >> and
> >> delighted. The first renovated car will go into service after Jan. 1.
> RTA's
> >> goal is to renovate two cars each month, until all 40 cars are in
> service.
> >> The interior renovation features brighter lights, upgraded seats and
> seat
> >> frames, new windows and more space for wheelchairs, strollers and
> bicycles.
> >>
> >> [image: RTA's Red Line is getting a long-awaited makeover. Find out here
> >> what you can expect to see over the next two
> >> years.]<
> http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=62511047&msgid=883868&act=NAHI&c=345125&destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.riderta.com%2Fnews%2Fdec-10-11-rta-unveils-new-red-line-cars
> >
> >>  Happy Anniversary: Light-rail service began here 100 years ago A few
> >> miles of track in Shaker Heights grew into the system we see today
> >>
> >> 100 years ago, on Dec. 17, 1913, Cleveland's Rapid Transit began growing
> >> into the system we know today. Trains began operating on the first 1.6
> mile
> >> segment<
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> >in
> >> the median of what would become Shaker Blvd., from Coventry Road east
> >> to
> >> Fontenay Road. The fare was 3 cents. That section is now part of RTA's
> >> Green Line. It is the oldest local section of continuously operating
> Rapid
> >> tracks still in use today.
> >>
> >> [image: One hundred years? It seems like only yesterday that light rail
> >> service began in Cleveland. Find out more about our history
> >> here.]<
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> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Herb Brannon
> >>
> >>
> >> *In Pittsburgh.............................A City And .........A State
> of
> >> Mind*
> >> Let's Go Pens
> >> Let's Go Steelers
> >>
> >>
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