[PRCo] 9/5/65 - Last day for PAT trolley lines

[D Brashear]

On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote:

> Unduplicated route miles in Toronto after the Bloor subway opened might
> have been around 40ish.   At that time Pittsburgh was still running to
> McKeesport, Drake, Library, West View.  Millvale and the West End One of my
> favorite examples is a comparison of two almost identical cities …
> Harrisburg, Pa. and Victoria, BC.   Both have populations on the same order
> of magnitude but the Canadian city has ten times more bus riders than the
> Pennsylvania city … 150,000 on a weekday in Victoria versus 15,000 in
> Harrisburg.   You stand on the main streets in downtown Victoria in the
> rush hour and you see buses swallowing up crowds of people.  I did that in
> 2007.  Harrisburg?  Why would I humble myself to ride a bus?   I own a car.
>
>
Why would I do either? my bike certainly took me from Camp Hill to the
Eisenhower Interchange and back easily enough ;)



-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.dementix.org/pipermail/pittsburgh-railways/attachments/20140424/aaf0366a/attachment.html