BPP1999 wrote:Head-end View wrote:I'm surprised SEPTA's okay with that. On Long Island if a scheme like this was proposed the LIRR would be against having to build an additional station and make an additional stop that would further delay trains. Did SEPTA actually pay for this new station or did the local municipality foot the bill? Oh never mind, I see the answer in the press release about the shared funding by many agencies. Interesting.
By focusing time/energy/resources/effort on unneeded stations and station improvements, they provide themselves additional reasons not to be able to expand their system. This policy is something any visionless, loser organization would undertake. People in NY would not tolerate mismanagement and lack of vision the way we do.
BPP and HEV:
I agree with both of you - it would be much harder to open a station similar to 9th Street-Lansdale on either
the LIRR or MNCR...
I will mention Republic - which closed in the Fall of 1986 during the LIRR Hicksville-Ronkonkoma Electrification.
Ridership there was steadily increasing - including significant reverse commuter use - but the rationale used to
close the station that it was too close to Farmingdale - about one mile - and these stations would be too close
together to allow higher speed train service. Planners figured that riders would use connecting bus service to
the NYS 110 Corridor from Farmingdale but few did - and that ridership was lost. Recently there has been some
mention to re-open Republic - which should have not been closed in the firstplace - for a substantial sum...
9th Street-Lansdale is under a mile and within walking distance of central Lansdale as mentioned and to me
unless this station can attract a significant permanent ridership this should have been built as a temporary
station - it will be interesting to see how many riders use this station - and to see what happens when the
Lansdale parking garage and other station improvements are completed.
With the addition of this new station will SEPTA seek to close Fortuna?
Fortuna's problem is lack of parking even though it is on Cowpath Road and near North Broad Street...
Lansdale Borough now has three separate SEPTA RRD stations within its boundaries including Pennbrook.
I just do not see - outside of pass holders - anyone paying $4 on board to ride between these stations...
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