Shuttle Driver Injured - Page 2

***Admin*** · 01-11-05, 10:17 PM

I do miss the trolley. The trams drive through and inside the campus, allowing a closer drop to the library and to the Biology building. The shuttles are convenient during the rain though.

scannergeek · 01-12-05, 11:03 PM

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Originally Posted by zoedragon

Pardon me while I bust out with an old-fogey voice...

Busses, trollies..... in my day we didn't have none of that! We had to walk up those hills on foot, and we liked it!

Those trams were about 40 years old when they were retired. Are you saying you're about 60 years old?

**zoedragon** · 01-13-05, 12:57 PM

Really?? How is it that I never saw them? I graduated in 1996.

SuperMegStar · 01-13-05, 01:48 PM

I started in 1998 and they were there... Cute little green and yellow trams... We called them Poly-Wogs in my day...

**zoedragon** · 01-14-05, 09:00 AM

I missed them completely, waahhhhh... Where did they run? And are you guys sure they were there before 1996?

SuperMegStar · 01-19-05, 12:08 AM

I think the Ontario Raceway donated them to us back in the day. They were about 40 years old when they retired, and the Ontario raceway has been closed longer than I can remember... Maybe they were being repaired the whole time you were there...

Postergirl7 · 01-19-05, 07:07 PM

Zoe - how many years ago did you graduate? Even when I got to CPP in 2001 we had the trolleys still.

SuperMegStar · 01-20-05, 12:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Postergirl7

Zoe - how many years ago did you graduate? Even when I got to CPP in 2001 we had the trolleys still.

Zoe just said 1996... Read back a bit...

**zoedragon** · 01-20-05, 08:54 AM

Maybe I'm just oblivious, though I'm not sure how I could miss green and yellow trolleys rolling around campus. Or were they around the permimeter of campus? I lived in the dorms so maybe I was never near them?

Postergirl7 · 01-20-05, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by SuperMegStar

Zoe just said 1996... Read back a bit...

Sorry.... I am new to forums and posting and the like. I always forget that there might be a second page. When I look at a new page for the first time I always scroll down the first page and find something funny to respond to, not realizing that there might be other pages. I'm sorry - I guess I'm retarded.

Postergirl7 · 01-20-05, 10:48 AM

Actually, the trams had been around since the late 70s. They used to travel through the center of campus (past the library, the marketplace, the bio and environmental sciences building and down University Drive to the F lots). But I don't know if they went any where else other than that. I never road them. I was always afraid that we would hit a bump and I would fall off. Or that my backpack would get stuck and I couldn't get off the tram. I'm a little paranoid, I guess.

SuperMegStar · 01-20-05, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Postergirl7

Sorry.... I am new to forums and posting and the like. I always forget that there might be a second page. When I look at a new page for the first time I always scroll down the first page and find something funny to respond to, not realizing that there might be other pages. I'm sorry - I guess I'm retarded.

You're not retarded, its ALL good! On the otherhand, it's Zoe I am concerned about...
Zoe, I am gonna research for you and see if maybe for some phantom reason the trams disappeared in your hayday!

**zoedragon** · 01-20-05, 12:20 PM

LOL Everyone fear for Zoe and her tunnel vision! She'll see gleaming pennies on the ground (and pick them up) but will miss entire trolleys as they rumble past... very scary.

SuperMegStar · 01-20-05, 02:51 PM

Zoe, here is the reponse from the Parking and Traffic guy here at CPP

"That is great!_ They were certainly in service and Facilities Management probably had 3 tram drivers on the payroll a decade ago._

Having personally suffered thru the trams an entire year before we threw them away and upgraded to buses, I understand how various work issues and mechanical breakdowns could make it appear that the campus had no trams._ There were many days when only 1 of the 3 trams was operating and when you figure in lunch, breaks, refueling, it probably only made 12 trips/day._ It was probably also during this mid-90s period that the trams were completely rerouted so that the Bio Building could be built._ They basically only ran from the F Lots to the Library for about 2 years.

Hope this helps paint a bigger picture of the illustrious tram history at Cal Poly Pomona,

Chas. "

**zoedragon** · 01-20-05, 03:16 PM

Well that was nice of you! That could explain me not seeing the things, especially if their routes were so limited and infrequent. I only had a car my last year of college so I was probably nowhere near the tram routes most of the time. Thanks for establishing my sanity!

SuperMegStar · 01-20-05, 03:52 PM

Just paying back the favor; you found out how I could get rid of my dinosaur of a computer! HA!

01-13-05, 12:57 PM	#23 (permalink)
zoedragon Fire-breather Joined: Mar 2004 Location: Inglewood, CA Posts: 668	Really?? How is it that I never saw them? I graduated in 1996. __________________ - Affordable website design found here -

01-14-05, 09:00 AM	#25 (permalink)
zoedragon Fire-breather Joined: Mar 2004 Location: Inglewood, CA Posts: 668	I missed them completely, waahhhhh... Where did they run? And are you guys sure they were there before 1996? __________________ - Affordable website design found here -

01-19-05, 07:07 PM	#27 (permalink)
Postergirl7 Newcomer Joined: Nov 2004 Location: Glendora Posts: 41	Zoe - how many years ago did you graduate? Even when I got to CPP in 2001 we had the trolleys still. __________________ Looking for the Goodies....

01-20-05, 08:54 AM	#29 (permalink)
zoedragon Fire-breather Joined: Mar 2004 Location: Inglewood, CA Posts: 668	Maybe I'm just oblivious, though I'm not sure how I could miss green and yellow trolleys rolling around campus. Or were they around the permimeter of campus? I lived in the dorms so maybe I was never near them? __________________ - Affordable website design found here -

01-20-05, 10:48 AM	#31 (permalink)
Postergirl7 Newcomer Joined: Nov 2004 Location: Glendora Posts: 41	Actually, the trams had been around since the late 70s. They used to travel through the center of campus (past the library, the marketplace, the bio and environmental sciences building and down University Drive to the F lots). But I don't know if they went any where else other than that. I never road them. I was always afraid that we would hit a bump and I would fall off. Or that my backpack would get stuck and I couldn't get off the tram. I'm a little paranoid, I guess. __________________ Looking for the Goodies....

01-11-05, 10:17 PM	#21 (permalink)
*Admin* Think About It Joined: Sep 2003 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 4,983	I do miss the trolley. The trams drive through and inside the campus, allowing a closer drop to the library and to the Biology building. The shuttles are convenient during the rain though.

01-13-05, 01:48 PM	#24 (permalink)
SuperMegStar Active Member Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 135	I started in 1998 and they were there... Cute little green and yellow trams... We called them Poly-Wogs in my day...

01-19-05, 12:08 AM	#26 (permalink)
SuperMegStar Active Member Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 135	I think the Ontario Raceway donated them to us back in the day. They were about 40 years old when they retired, and the Ontario raceway has been closed longer than I can remember... Maybe they were being repaired the whole time you were there...

01-20-05, 12:20 PM	#33 (permalink)
zoedragon Fire-breather Joined: Mar 2004 Location: Inglewood, CA Posts: 668	LOL Everyone fear for Zoe and her tunnel vision! She'll see gleaming pennies on the ground (and pick them up) but will miss entire trolleys as they rumble past... very scary. __________________ - Affordable website design found here -

01-20-05, 02:51 PM	#34 (permalink)
SuperMegStar Active Member Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 135	Zoe, here is the reponse from the Parking and Traffic guy here at CPP "That is great!_ They were certainly in service and Facilities Management probably had 3 tram drivers on the payroll a decade ago._ Having personally suffered thru the trams an entire year before we threw them away and upgraded to buses, I understand how various work issues and mechanical breakdowns could make it appear that the campus had no trams._ There were many days when only 1 of the 3 trams was operating and when you figure in lunch, breaks, refueling, it probably only made 12 trips/day._ It was probably also during this mid-90s period that the trams were completely rerouted so that the Bio Building could be built._ They basically only ran from the F Lots to the Library for about 2 years. Hope this helps paint a bigger picture of the illustrious tram history at Cal Poly Pomona, Chas. "

01-20-05, 03:16 PM	#35 (permalink)
zoedragon Fire-breather Joined: Mar 2004 Location: Inglewood, CA Posts: 668	Well that was nice of you! That could explain me not seeing the things, especially if their routes were so limited and infrequent. I only had a car my last year of college so I was probably nowhere near the tram routes most of the time. Thanks for establishing my sanity! __________________ - Affordable website design found here -

01-20-05, 03:52 PM	#36 (permalink)
SuperMegStar Active Member Joined: Dec 2004 Posts: 135	Just paying back the favor; you found out how I could get rid of my dinosaur of a computer! HA!

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