[PRCo] Streetcars in D.C.

[Daria Phoebe Brashear]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
wrote:

>
> Remember when the Presidents' Conference Committee did a study in the
> early 1930s to see what the jerk limits were that people could tolerate on
> a streetcar?   Seems no one knows where that material is today.   The study
> is going to be redone next weekend in Baltimore on the light rail.   How do
> I know?   I have been asked to be a victim because I'm arthritic and have
> artificial knees.   They want to know if I can stand up when they jerk me
> around.   There will be a dozen or so people being battered around starting
> at 5:30 next Sunday morning to restudy what we already know and have
> forgotten.   We're reinventing wheels.
>
>
What ever became of this study?

Daria

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Daria Phoebe Brashear



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