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Another editorial from the Inky: https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/editorials/septa-funding-fare-hikes-service-key-card-public-transportation-20230427.html?query=editorials I don't agree with the piece 100% but I'm glad they're finally starting to question SEPTA's planning and decision-making blunders.

mbm537 wrote: ↑Wed Apr 19, 2023 11:49 pm Why did they have to reinvent the wheel?

It's a pity that SEPTA doesn't believe in widely-used standards, TVMs, or convenience. Indeed - I sometimes think they want to corner Not Invented Here market. A major reason the Key has been such a [expletive deleted] was because of their aforementioned insistence re-creating the legacy system. At...

If they want to enforce that only fare-paying riders use the parking lots, the obvious move would be to tie parking to the fare reader—enter your spot number, tap to start your fare, and they know that a commuter's car is in that spot. Since not tapping out eventually charges you a full fare, that'...

Discretional riders - or as you describe them as "day trippers" should be encouraged in any reasonable way possible to take advantage of using Regional Rail - incentive fares should be promoted that would be inclusive for daily cash-paying riders - one day round trips would be a start for...

But are fine with more freeway lanes, so the stolen vans actually used for crime can better access their enclaves... They believe that criminals take a bus or train to Walled-in Pond Acres, walk to one of the mansions, grab Bryce's golf clubs and Muffy's silver, haul their loot back to the station ...

SRPRA applies for federal funding https://patch.com/pennsylvania/phoenixville/schuylkill-river-passenger-train-authority-applies-federal-funds Which of course was met with the inevitable barrage of "It'll bring crime", along with boggling comments about that &**#$! episode of The Simp...

That's EXACTLY what happens - projects like this have a lot of different clocks that reset if work pauses. More than money is forfeited; if the project eventually resumes some or all of the associated work has to be repeated to account for what's changed in the interim. The whole debacle's playing o...

DVRPC has released a study for the proposed Overbrook Intermodal Center incorporating the Overbrook RRD station and an extended trolley Route 10.

I found this story regarding progress - or lack thereof - on CRRC's work for MBTA's Red and Orange Line cars. Has anyone heard whether there's been similar problems with SEPTA's bi-level order? https://www.masstransitmag.com/rail/vehicles/news/21295921/ma-update-gov-maura-healey-deploys-team-to-moni...

There was a time many millennia (!) ago when the city did bother. When I took the 23 to classes at Temple, some department (police, PPA, not sure) had a huge truck with push bars on its front. Double-parked cars would be unceremoniously shoved off the tracks, sometimes even sideways. If "sumthi...

Meanwhile, the first two PCC's are in various stages of rebuild at Woodland Shops. Paint has been completed on the first car; other work remains to be completed with wiring and the interior. The second car is undergoing body work. Bumping the thread with this from KYW: SEPTA working to bring histor...

Frankly what PATCO needs is a proper connection to 30th St, where people can transfer to whatever mode they need. The current lack of a direct Regional Rail + Amtrak connection is pretty sad given the distances are so small. Extend the line west to Penn Medicine, then go north to 30th. Build a pede...

Jeff K., unless you know something that I don't, the only place I've seen anything about a proposed expansion is in the Philadelphia 2035 document. There isn't any movement within DRPA to even embrace this idea, let alone actively support it. The proposal was part of a mid-1970s "blue sky"...

I have never heard of any serious proposals to extend PATCO and seeing that the PATCO line parallels NJ Atlantic City line I dont know the history of why the line was built in the first place. Last I rode it it was using cars from 1960 something..I know about the bridge train but beyond that never ...