Abandoned Street Car Trolley Line Civic Arena Seen Pittsburgh North Side Spring Garden Route
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- 10/22/2011 Removed shaky video! Street cars were prominent in Pittsburgh as in most cities until the 1950's. When Port Authority of Allegheny county consolidated all the bus lines in 1963 one of the first things they did was kill the trolley system (maybe so GM could readly supply them with buses). Here is a pristine section of brick and rail that is still remaining near East Ohio St at the corner of Chestnut and Spring Garden Ave. You get a bonus by seeing the Abandoned and soon to be demolished Civic Arena, an engineering wonder from 1961. visit www.stuffthatsgone.com for all my videos.
General Motors and big Auto Makers with Tire Company's indeed put the trolleys in scrap yards. From other city's across USA same thing happened.
Those transit companies were private, and were losing money and would never again be profitable, which is why they were happy to sell out to GM. GM lost millions on the scheme because privately owned mass transit is not a profitable enterprise.
Lathan This is a very poor racially mixed neighborhood that was isolated to the South and West by highways in the early 80's. The area to the west of the highway is being gentrified. It is an old German area, and an ethnic German club is still very active to the right of street where the car track ends.
Pittsburgh doesn't look that great, but then I live in LA and our town is shit too!