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		<title>The Stop-Callers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Usually, here at The City Desk, we like to offer well-researched accounts of the city&#8217;s past and present, based largely upon old newspaper articles, city/university archival materials and personal accounts. We like to stay away from posting apocrypha whenever possible. Today&#8217;s topic, though, is a bit harder to nail down using such traditional means. The idea behind it is simple, that of the public transit &#8220;Stop-Caller,&#8221; someone who would sit on the bus and call out the upcoming stops, so that passengers would have advance notice. Of course, on most transit systems these days, this is taken care of via an automated recording (when it works). Here, for a brief period (maybe) there were actually people assigned this job on specific transit routes. The thing is, no one can exactly agree as to when or why. One version has the Stop-Callers riding along on some of the City-Suburban Transit Authority&#8217;s (CSTA) major bus routes after a particularly awful snowstorm in 1931. The reasoning being that the drivers needed to concentrate on the road ahead- this other person, usually someone from the CSTA office, whomever could be spared that also had a good sense of the route. This was said to [...]]]></description>
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