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Route 19C City View came into PAT's
route structure from the former Pittsburgh
Railways Company (PRCo) feeder bus route 16 City View. The route was renumbered from
the 220 City View feeder bus route around 11/13/60 and the route was originally started on
10/13/47. Its purpose was to serve as a feeder route to the trolley lines that traveled
on Perrysville Avenue as well as the 7 Charles Street streetcar line from the City View
area of Pittsburgh. The PRCo 16 City View later served as a feeder for the 7 Charles
Street bus route after the 7 trolley line was discontinued on 9/1/61.
Garages assigned to the 19C:
- Manchester Garage - 03/01/64 - 03/30/68
- Ross Division - 03/31/68 - 09/01/79
Destination Signs:
 An example of an old look coach sign
An example of a new look coach sign |
Route ran with both window cards and destination signs.
Above is representative of what you would have seen for the route.
Routing:
1964 routing from City View - Damas at Noster via Noster, Serene,
Bader, Damas, Rockledge, Romanoff, Hespen, South Side, Sunset, Essen Charles Street, (to
Cross, Strauss, Irwin to Charles Street on some trips), Brightridge, Brighton Road,
Brighton Place to California Avenue.
1964 routing from Brighton Place at California Avenue - Brighton Place
at California Avenue via California Avenue, Charles Street, (some trips originated from
Irwin at Charles Street), Essen, Sunset, South Side, Hespen, Romanoff, Rockledge, Damas to
Noster.
Date unsure but between 1964 and 1966 the routing changed on the City
view end. It is shown in the 10/24/66 routing below with additional route changes from
Charles Street on that were effective 10/24/66.
10/24/66 routing from City View - Damas at Noster via Noster, Serene,
Bader, Damas, Rockledge, Romanoff, Hespen, South Side, Sunset, Lamar, Mt. Pleasant,
Penfort, Essen, Charles Street, Brightridge, Brighton Road, Brighton Place, Jacksonia,
Monterey, West North Avenue, Federal Street, Erie, Arch Street, Stockton to Sandusky
Street.
10/24/66 routing from Stockton at Sandusky Street - Stockton at
Sandusky Street via Sandusky Street, West North Avenue, Arch Street, Jacksonia, Brighton
Place, California Avenue, Charles Street, Essen, Penfort, Mt. Pleasant, Lamar, Sunset,
South Side, Hespen, Romanoff, Rockledge, Damas to Noster.
03/31/68 routing from City View - Damas at Noster via Noster, Serene,
Bader, Damas, Rockledge, Romanoff, Hespen, South Side, Sunset, Lamar, Mt. Pleasant,
Penfort, Essen, Charles Street, Brightridge, Brighton Road, Brighton Place, Jacksonia,
Monterey, West North Avenue, Federal Street, North Commons, West Commons, South Commons,
Federal Street, General Robinson Street to Sandusky.
03/31/68 routing from General Robinson Street at Sandusky via Sandusky,
East Commons, North Commons, Federal Street, Arch Street, Jacksonia, Brighton Place,
California Avenue, Charles Street, Essen, Penfort, Mt. Pleasant, Lamar, Sunset, South
Side, Hespen, Romanoff, Rockledge, Damas to Noster.
02/21/71 routing from City View - Damas at Noster via Noster, Serene,
Bader, Damas, Rockledge, Romanoff, Hespen, South Side, Sunset, Lamar, Mt. Pleasant,
Penfort, Essen, Charles Street, Brightridge, Brighton Road, Brighton Place, Jacksonia,
Monterey, West North Avenue, Federal Street, North Commons, West Commons to Allegheny
Square West.
02/21/71 routing from Allegheny Square West - Allegheny Square West to
West Commons, South Commons, East Commons, North Commons, Federal Street, Arch Street,
Jacksonia, Brighton Place, California Avenue, Charles Street, Essen, Penfort, Mt.
Pleasant, Lamar, Sunset, South Side, Hespen, Romanoff, Rockledge, Damas to Noster.
02/21/72 temporary alternate routing on certain trips inbound - Regular
routing to Brighton Road, Kirkbride, California Avenue, Brighton Place and via regular
route.
02/21/72 temporary alternate routing on certain trips outbound -
regular routing to Brighton Place, California Avenue, Brighton Road, Kirkbride, California
Avenue, Charles Street and regular route.
07/09/72 temporary alternate routing on certain trips inbound - Regular
routing to Brighton Road, Kirkbride, California Avenue, Sedgewick Street, Kunkle Avenue,
California Avenue, Brighton Place and via regular route.
07/09/72 temporary alternate routing on certain trips outbound -
Regular routing to Brighton Place, California Avenue, Brighton Road, Kirkbride, California
Avenue, Sedgewick Street, Kunkle Avenue, California Avenue, Charles Street and via regular
route.
01/28/74 - Temporary alternate route discontinued and trips resumed the
regular 02/21/71 routing.
06/19/77 Inbound Routing - Colby at Fabar via Fabar, Sirius, Regulus,
Mt. Pleasant Road, Penfort, Essen, Charles Street, Brighton Road, West North Avenue,
Federal Street, North Commons, West Commons, South Commons, Federal Street, 6th Street
Bridge, 6th Street, Penn Avenue to Stanwix Street.
06/19/77 Outbound Routing - Penn Avenue at Stanwix Street via Stanwix
Street, Ft. Duquesne Blvd Busway, 6th Street Bridge, South Commons, East Commons, North
Commons, Federal Street, West North Avenue, Arch Street, Jacksonia Street, Brighton Road,
Charles Street, Essen, Sunset, Lamar, Mt. Pleasant Road, Colby to Fabar.
A one way trip on the regular original 1964 routing took approximately
8 minutes and the one way trip time on the final 19C routing took approximately 26
minutes.
Route Highlights:
Started: 03/01/64 (date of PRCo acquisition).
Ended: 09/01/79 when the route was redesignated as the 16F City View
on 09/02/79.
The 19C originally ran Monday through Friday only. By September of
1971, Saturday service was offered on the route. On June 19, 1977 service was offered 7
days a week including holidays.
Originally under PAT, the 19C was a direct feeder route for the 16F
Charles Street.
The 19C was rerouted effective 10/23/66 to service the North Side
section of the former 16F Charles Street route but the route did not enter Downtown.
The 19C utilized Continue Trip "CT" transfers on a portion
of the line during the time the route was extended to Allegheny Center but didn't enter
Downtown. CT transfers were no longer used once the line was extended into Downtown.
On 02/21/72, a temporary detour went into effect for certain trips to
help cover areas that were unable to be served by the 16C Bellevue - West View during a
large construction project on Ohio River Boulevard and California Avenue.
Effective 01/28/74 the temporary service was discontinued as the 16C
Bellevue - West View was back on regular routing.
Effective 09/01/74 the 19C began offering Saturday evening service.
Service was extended to Downtown Pittsburgh on 06/19/77 and made the
19C one of the oddities in the PAT system at the time with a route designated as a local
community route entering Downtown as a regular route. At this time also the original
service to Damas and Nostra in the City View dropped from the 19C and the route changed to
terminate at Colby and Fabar (the 6B Spring Hill terminus) which was north of the original
19C terminus. Service to Damas and Nostra area was picked up by a new route, the 6D Spring
Looper as well as by route changes to the 6C Spring Garden. Sunday service on the 19C also
started on this date.
By 1979, the 19C had evolved from a 9 trip a day (weekday only)
feeder route in 1964 to a regular main trunk route with over 35 trips daily during the
weekdays in addition to weekend and holiday service.
The 19C evolution resulted directly from the elimination of the 16F
Charles Street route along with a series of improvements to the service to attract more
ridership. The route was one of the better examples of PAT consolidating and improving
services to serve the more people. As a comparison, the 16F Charles Street only had 15
trips daily leaving town at the end of service and the 19C had 36 trips daily when it was
redesignated to the 16F City View with more than 4 times the ridership than the original
16F Charles Street.
For at least a year after the route was redesignated as the 16F, it
was not uncommon to see the 19C sign reading still in use with a 16F auxiliary window
card.
During the times school was in session, a trip or two in the morning
and afternoon (varied by schedule) would serve Perry High School on Perrysville Avenue
starting in 1968.
Schedules (Known PAT issued schedules issued are listed):
The 19C had 3 distinct schedule types.
Manchester schedules were designated as folder PM-4 and were a plain
white, multi-panel fold out schedule that shared a folder with the 6B Spring Hill, 6C
Spring Garden, 11E Fineview and 16F Charles Street. By 1967 the schedule design was
changed to the late 60's design. The schedule folder PM-4 had one odd folder issue of
PM-4I which was a very rare item as PAT always skipped the letters I and O for the folder
suffix letter.
- PM-4A - ?
- PM-4B - 11/22/64
- PM-4C - 01/10/65
- PM-21D - 07/02/67
- PM-4D - 06/27/65 - Corrected to 07/17/65
- PM-4E - 02/27/66
- PM-4F - 05/01/66
- PM-4G - 06/26/66
- PM-4H - ?
- PM-4I - 10/23/66 - Corrected to 11/14/66 - The original issue may have been PM-4H
- PM-4J - ?
- PPM-4K - 12/03/67
Ross schedules were assigned folder R-4 and were in the late 60's
design and the MOD era design. Both designs were a multi-panel fold out schedule and
included the routes 6B Spring Hill, 6C Spring Garden, 6D Spring Looper and 11E Fineview.
The first schedule issued carried the folder K-4 due to Ross Garage originally being
called Keating Garage.
- K-4A - 03/31/68
- R-4B through R-4N - ?
- R-4P - 09/05/71 - Reprinted without correction *
- R-4Q - 11/14/71
- R-4R - ?
- R-4S - 04/16/72
- R-4T - 07/09/72 - Corrected to 09/03/72
- R-4U - 10/29/72
- R-4V - 01/07/73
- R-4W - 09/30/73
- R-4X - 02/24/74 - Start of MOD era schedules
- R-4Y - ?
- R-4Z - 07/07/74
- R-4A - 09/01/74
- R-4B - 06/15/75
- R-4C - ?
- R-4D - ?
- R-4E - ?
- R-4F - 09/05/76
- R-4G - ?
- R-4H - ?
- R-4J - 02/06/77
- R-4K - 06/19/77 - Reprinted without correction *
- R-4L - 12/18/77
- R-4M - ?
- R-4N - ?
- R-4P - ?
- R-4Q - 01/14/79 - Reprinted without correction *
There may have been a few PAT schedules issued prior to PM-4A as the
very early schedules tended not to have folder numbers and/or were reissued former
operator schedules.
Folder numbers did repeat after 24 schedules were issued. Letters I and
O were not used as an issue letter.
Route Disposition:
The 19C was redesignated to the regular route designation of 16F City
View on 09/02/79. This new 16F designation was fitting as the route operated over a good
portion of the former 16F Charles Street routing which the 19C assumed in 1966 and made
the route fit into the PAT route numbering structure for regular routes that entered
Downtown Pittsburgh.
The continuation of this history dealing with the redesignated 16F City
View will be posted at a later date.
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Route maps for the 19C showing the 1966 routing, the extended routing to
Allegheny Center and the final routing into Downtown Pittsburgh. |
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