The cutback in 1983 of diesel lines to the termini of the wired system happened just as the population along the line was set to explode. It has exploded, we need the service back. Pretty simple.
I'm not going to sit back and watch mine and my neighbor's tax dollars fund some trail and forever road repairs and so on when re-activation is by and large the consensus among residents in the area most affected by the line's re-activation and somewhat outside of that area as well. There are literally mile plus long traffic jams here in the morning and often in the evening that were not here 10 years ago, even though the bypass has a speed limit of 55 and the roads connecting to it have speed limits of 35+. The issue is not speed, or traffic signals, or intersection layout, it's sheer pure volume. SEPTA is not meeting its mandate to provide transit to the lower 1/2 of bucks county. Don't bother pointing me to buses, as in most cases you cannot even walk to the closest stop due to lack of sidewalks and crosswalks where there are sidewalks. This also affects air quality and noise pollution.
As i stand in the kitchen on weekday mornings making breakfast or tea, i can legitimately see out the window traffic lined up on 332 backed up all the way into the next township across the creek. This is not acceptable. We are choking to death on traffic within a 8 mile radius of newtown. Most of that volume is going into NJ, or heading to i-95 and philadelphia and points between On top of that, on some days the traffic volume is heavy all day and into the late evening. It isn't sustainable, and it sure isn't saving people money to sit there shuffling forward every 2 minutes batteries draining or fuel burning. Lost productivity, increased stress, loss of sleep due to having to leave earlier etc etc the list goes on.
It may take up to a year to get it organized and see how plausible a suit is, but if it is plausible, it will happen and you lot on here will be the first to know what goes on.
Next stop the square, journal square station next!