[PRCo] Streetcars in D.C.

[Daria Phoebe Brashear]

The 2010 Baltimore study is far too late to have been in the book??

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
wrote:

> I turned over all the stuff from the PCC book research to the PTM library.
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> On Nov 6, 2015, at 2:03 AM, Daria Phoebe Brashear via Pittsburgh-railways
> wrote:
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> > 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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