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Most towns over population 10,000 size in PA had streetcars.
Some civic minded-folks have made over some busses to look like them complete with bad ride quality and rattles, but routes are still confined to post-industrial urban areas where concentrated populations live without stores-jobs.
Getting them out to the suburbs where all the service jobs are seems to be the only thing accomplished by our regional transit companies. These downtowns are dead zones except where they can re-invent themselves as tourist destinations.
But without the easily-found park-and-ride lots and light rail Maryland has, the busses and fake-trolleys are actually a detraction to tourists in PA. If not for Amtrak, were screwed for mass transit. Europe's rail networks make most of the US look isolated.
We can thank General Motors and the Grumman body works for the bus system in these towns today, a limited mass-transit system barely worth the subsidy it gets..
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Last edited by DavGoodlin; 05-08-2018 at 01:57 PM.
Reason: finish rant about PA's rotting downtowns
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