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

[John Swindler]

When I first started riding the 7:20 am Hershey bus to Harrisburg around 2000, ridership never exceeded 6 during first year, and occasionally I was the only rider.  After 5-6 years, a 40 foot bus was assigned when ridership routinely exceeded 20.  By 2010, a third bus was added to the schedule to alleviate overcrowding.
 
About the only constant for a dozen years was that I rode this bus.  There was constant change in the ridership.  For a few years it was mostly women.  Then for a few years mostly men.  Then switched back to women.  At the end, men tended to board in Hershey, while the women boarded in Hummelstown.  Even the age of riders fluctuated.  Older riders in early years.  A lot of young people at the end.    
 
 

 
> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 18:26:03 -0400
> From: shadow at dementix.org
> To: pittsburgh-railways at mailman.dementix.org
> Subject: Re: [PRCo] 9/5/65 - Last day for PAT trolley lines
> 
> 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 ;)
> 
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