The below-ground connection used to exist, and it’s coming back thanks to a huge, federally funded renovation: BIllyPenn.com
30th Street Station is a major hub for train travel in Philadelphia region, but if you try to get there via the city’s most-used transit line, the transfer is anything but simple.
That should change in the near future, as SEPTA and Amtrak have identified plans to restore a connecting tunnel as a part of a federally funded renovation.
As things stand now, the Market-Frankford Line stops at 30th Street, but you can’t get to the Amtrak hub without going above ground, following a route that lacks wayfinding signage and traverses a street that funnels automobile traffic off the I-76 highway.
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Next stop, Willoughby
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