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Article #36Re: First Work Day Ridership
From: Exile on Market Street
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 00:00
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 00:00
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In article <35B4D5F6.A51272B1@value.net>, Silas Warner <silas@value.net> wrote: > ctrabs74@my-dejanews.com wrote: > > > > Well, MUNI is in the process of retiring it's Boeing fleet in favor of new > > Bread LRVs. The low floor models are similar to the MBTA Type 8 fleets now > > being delivered to Boston. > > Correction: the new Bredas are not "low floor" and cannot be because > they run in a high-platform environment. Like the Boeings before them, > they have retractable steps -- and also like the Boeings, no wheelchair > lifts for street-level operation. So how is disabled access handled on the new Embarcadero line, which I thought the Bredas were working? -- Sandy Smith, Exile on Market Street, Philadelphia smiths@pobox.upenn.edu Associate Editor, _Pennsylvania Current_ 215.898.1423/fax 215.898.1203 I speak for myself here, not for Penn http://pobox.upenn.edu/~smiths/ What it means for me to be an American is to have freedom -- even if it's the disastrous freedom to continue our historical legacy of racial hatred and the insanity of valuing ethnicity above that of our great nationality. -----------Raymond R. Rochester 3d, Elkins Park, Pa. (_Inquirer_ 7/5/98)--
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