No I do not take a trolley, I can take one from 30th st station to
work, but I either walk on good days or just switch trains. The
trolley still runs on the "Green Line" but part of it is in tunnels
under Center City.
Yea there was a huge bad reaction on that decision.
Larry
On Aug 25, 2005, at 12:39 PM, John.Deikis@med.va.gov wrote:
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>
>
> When I moved from Philadelphia in the '90's, they were still running
> streetcars. Larry Macy might still be taking one to work!
>
>
>
> Interesting aside for Frank Clarici and our other Sino-nippo-phobes:
>
> When "The Authorities" out there looked into replacing the cars on
> one of
> their suburban trolley lines that were still running wooden cars
> from the
> 30's (the great Red Arrow Line connecting beautiful Upper Darby with
> Norristown, PA), they awarded the contract to Kawasaki. The other
> bidder
> was Budd Co., which happens to build rail cars and happens to be
> located in
> Philadelphia. Go figure!
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>
>
> JohnD
>
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Larry B. Macy, Ph.D.
macy@bbl.med.upenn.edu
System Administrator/Manager
Neuropsychiatry Section
Department of Psychiatry
University of Pennsylvania
3400 Spruce St. - 1015 Gates
Philadelphia, PA 19104
The bottom line: Sure, there's pain in adopting the Mac. But if I accept
that, I get to use a computer that works, and that pretty much does
what I
expect and want a computer to do.
Stewart Alsop
FORTUNE.com
Monday, June 25, 2001
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