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2018 is being optimistic given the pace PennDOT is working. Many residents in the area like the detour routing because it's closer to where they live, so the longer the detour continues, the better, not to mention the shuttle buses are much more reliable than the trolley. are you kidding me? the sh...

Let's remember Logan, Nicetown, Tioga and Spring Garden were all dumpy stations in really bad neighborhoods in the 80s. I've seen photos during their last years of service and they looked like something out of Beruit. It's not surprising they were low ridership. Spring Garden in the 80s was also a ...

The subway station mezzanine level had underground connections to North Broad station (South side - Lehigh) and the PRR's North Philly station (North side -Glenwood). MACTRAXX and sarge, thank you. I vaguely remember being down there at some point and agree that it was far eerier than the Center Ci...

are we talking about an extra train or an extra car or two on an already scheduled train? how difficult would that be to throw together? I'm MOW, operations are a mystery to me.

ChrisinAbington wrote:Increased Oxygen is an Improved Customer Service? I guess that's one way to look at it?

... I would not be opposed to the City Hall/15th Street Station being permanently renamed "Comcast Central Station" if Comcast were to pony up some dough for remodeling. The more I think about the issue, the less I'm in favor of selling naming rights. First, stations' names generally have...

i grew up 200 yards from the NEC and can hear the el and the port richmond secondary equally clear now. i know most people who live near a rail line don't complain, it just erks me when people buy or rent a house or apartment near an active rail line that was probably there 150 years before the buil...

But in all honestly, how can you take a noise complaint seriously from somebody who made a conscious decision to buy a house next to railroad tracks? These are the same Darwinians who buy a house on a golf course and complain that they are getting pelted with balls. i've always wondered why septa a...

maybe it wasn't the right call in light of the puny excuse for a storm. had the schedule not been changed and it turned out to be a real blow people would have cried about the hour late trains and stuck buses and blahblahblah. know what the best way to predict the weather is? buy a high quality baro...

If I'm out in the middle of nowhere taking train shots, I've got a handgun on my hip just in case (feral dogs, rabid raccoons, urban yutes, etc. - was warned one time to watch for a pair of pit bulls in the area). Of course, you're from New Jersey and they don't allow their subjects the right to se...

Sounds like many pro-SEPTA insiders here.... Anyways, there are technological solutions today that can easily monitor any station so they can be kept open 24/7. And if the homeless are such a problem (oh the humanity!), it sounds like SEPTA has an answer for that anyway whenever NPT gets off the gr...

NPT is a total disaster, from what I hear. I wonder if SEPTA will deploy it next summer so that it makes using the system that much more difficult for visitors. SEPTA should buy some spatulas to peel all the egg off their face once the key has gone into the slot. more like dropped down the storm dr...

Speculative question for insiders: do we even have the fleet to run the east end of the 15, or are too many of the PCCs permanent shop queens to contemplate it before the replacements come in? Given how often I see the 15 emergency-bustituted, I have my suspicions. the pcc-IIs are definitely shop q...

a month or two ago my boss told me 2018 or 19, and they're going to redo frankfurt and girard at that time to make frankfurt ave accessible from both directions of girard ave,

For thr history buffs, In the tunnel (exact location I forget ) west of 15th street I believe , there use to be switches between the subway surface car and the elevated. Switches have been out for a LONG time but the openings in the girder work remains. This interlocking was around when the tunnel ...