Hey Scot, do you like my web site design? :-) I made that site and drew the maps for RRTC many years ago. Unfortunately, the city largely ignored their findings after spending a lot of money on an engineering and feasibility report. There is also another group that was advocating trolleys as a tourist attraction versus a transit solution, Rochester Trolley Rail. A recent search shows their site seems to have evaporated.
Going even further back, I have a copy of a report from 1972 from the Rochester-Genesee Regional Transit Authority that explores the question of a rapid transit or light rail route from Charlotte to City Hall to RIT to Riverton and Avon! Rising gas prices were a concern... a dramatic photo shows pump prices of 38 and 41 cents! The report draws no real conclusions, but is full of 1970s optimism and Buck Rogers-isms about rapid transit and what a utopian society it will create.
Going even farther back, the city council looked at ways to expand the moribund Rochester Subway in the early 1950s. Plans called for abandoning the electrification and old trolley cars and replacing with Budd RDC's. This would also allow expansion over other rail routes- including the LV and Erie to Henrietta, the PRR to the Airport, and the B&O to Charlotte. This map explains the proposed 1952 expansions (that were quickly dropped and forgotten):
http://railroad.net/articles/railfannin ... sb_map.gif
Luther, if access to the RRTC maps or this 1972 report helps you, I can arrange to have them sent to you. Sorry for wandering off the original topic of Luther's post. There seems to be a historical context for a Henrietta-to-Rochester link and even a Henrietta-Charlotte link.
-otto-
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