[PRCo] Pittsburgh Transit Topics (April 8, 2014)

[D Brashear]

On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote:

> Yes but those are only gross generalizations.   The problem is that many
> of those places that transit once served are dying because we have chosen
> to live in other places.   "Otherwise, not much changed" is a gross
> simplification.
>
> Wilkinsburg, for example, peaked at somewhere around 32,000 people after
> World War II.  Today's number is half that.


I had occasion to pass through part of Wilkinsburg Saturday. Having biked
from the South Side I crossed the Rankin Bridge and was trying to get to
Forbes and Braddock. After crossing the railroad at Woodstock Avenue, I cut
up to Braddock Ave only to use Swissvale Avenue to Whitney and then pass
under the railroad there.

Whitney east of the busway/railroad is at least tastefully boarded up and
not burned out, but it's empty. West of the busway is better. The closer
you get to Regent Square the better it is.


   Plum Borough, for example, took a lot of what Penn Hills Borough lost.


Technically Penn Hills is not a borough; It's a Home Rule Municipality, as
is Monroeville. The vagaries of the PA Municipal Code are crazy.



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