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Re: Strike II

 by R3 Passenger ¦  Wed Oct 26, 2016 12:58 pm ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: Strike - TWU - November 1st 2016 ¦  Replies: 53 ¦  Views: 16099

SEPTA has posted the "Service Interruption Guide."

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Re: SEPTA Info on your Phone

 by R3 Passenger ¦  Tue Oct 18, 2016 11:59 am ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: SEPTA Info on your Phone ¦  Replies: 11 ¦  Views: 4440

I use SeptaDroid, which seems to work a heck of a lot better than the official app. I used to use SeptaDroid before the official app came out, but this app has not been updated since 2013. For bus location info, I use SEPTA Instant. For Regional Rail, I use TrainView, but it is useless on the Trent...

Re: SEPTA Info on your Phone

 by R3 Passenger ¦  Mon Oct 17, 2016 10:19 am ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: SEPTA Info on your Phone ¦  Replies: 11 ¦  Views: 4440

Your post reads like one of the SEPTA surveys. I do trip planning on my own and do not rely on any of the apps. SEPTA's tracking data is hit or miss and not a good idea to rely on it at this time.

Re: Leased equipment MARC/NJT/AMTK

 by R3 Passenger ¦  Mon Oct 17, 2016 9:14 am ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: Leased equipment MARC/NJT/AMTK ¦  Replies: 129 ¦  Views: 51580

The NJT set went home. Six Silverliner IVs on 1724 this morning. It still terminated at Suburban Station though. Conductor was originally announcing Temple University as the last stop, then recanted at 30th Street.

Re: Lackawanna Cutoff Passenger Service Restoration

 by R3 Passenger ¦  Fri Oct 14, 2016 8:01 am ¦  Forum: New Jersey Transit NJT Rail and Light Rail LRT ¦  Topic: Lackawanna Cutoff Passenger Service Restoration ¦  Replies: 6082 ¦  Views: 1525392

PA would not pay for it. Philadelphia fights just to get SEPTA subsidized. Some representatives in Harrisburg equate transit to welfare.

Re: Lackawanna Cutoff Passenger Service Restoration

 by R3 Passenger ¦  Thu Oct 06, 2016 8:09 am ¦  Forum: New Jersey Transit NJT Rail and Light Rail LRT ¦  Topic: Lackawanna Cutoff Passenger Service Restoration ¦  Replies: 6082 ¦  Views: 1525392

New Jersey is a pass-through state. It is bookended by two major cities (New York to the northeast, and Philadelphia to the southwest). Despite whatever one may believe, New Jersey's economic activity is torn between those two behemoths. NJ's rail services are focused on New York because it has hist...

Re: Leased equipment MARC/NJT/AMTK

 by R3 Passenger ¦  Thu Sep 15, 2016 8:23 am ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: Leased equipment MARC/NJT/AMTK ¦  Replies: 129 ¦  Views: 51580

Trains 1794 and 1763 on Trenton Line are the NJT set.

Trains 9798 and 9747 on the Trenton Line are a MARC set. I rode it last night and the HEP went out every time the train came to a full stop. This morning, it didn't even show up.

Re: Silverliner V's Returning To Service

 by R3 Passenger ¦  Thu Sep 08, 2016 11:00 am ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: Silverliner V's Returning To Service ¦  Replies: 50 ¦  Views: 17263

Isn't that where the NJT set has been laying over midday over the past couple months? Also, I thought that Vs were limited to a maximum of 6 car trains?

Re: Silverliner Vs Out of Service - Schedule/Service Discuss

 by R3 Passenger ¦  Thu Sep 01, 2016 12:24 pm ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: Silverliner Vs Out of Service - Schedule/Service Discussion ¦  Replies: 496 ¦  Views: 131630

SEPTA Starting to get Regional Rail Cars Back on Track SEPTA expects to have its Regional Rail trains back on a normal schedule by Oct. 10, thanks to the hard work of a Lower Bucks company. [...] Working more than 15 hours a day and on weekends, employees at PennFab have fabricated 340 of the 480 b...

Re: Silverliner Vs Out of Service - Schedule/Service Discuss

 by R3 Passenger ¦  Thu Aug 25, 2016 3:33 pm ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: Silverliner Vs Out of Service - Schedule/Service Discussion ¦  Replies: 496 ¦  Views: 131630

Express buses begin September 6. Chestnut Hill East and West Lines: Busing to and from the Fern Rock Transportation Center - Morning buses departing from the Chestnut Hill East, with stops at Chestnut Hill West, Wyndmoor/St. Martins and Sedgwick. - Afternoon buses departing from Fern Rock, with sto...

Re: Fleet Question

 by R3 Passenger ¦  Wed Aug 24, 2016 7:47 am ¦  Forum: New Jersey Transit NJT Rail and Light Rail LRT ¦  Topic: Fleet Question ¦  Replies: 5 ¦  Views: 3185

Can confirm that 3318 runs with multilevels on the lower coast line. Rode it a month ago.

Re: Silverliner Vs Out of Service - Technical Topics

 by R3 Passenger ¦  Tue Aug 02, 2016 1:25 pm ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: Silverliner Vs Out of Service - Technical Topics ¦  Replies: 233 ¦  Views: 83499

ex Budd man wrote:And building more high platform stations is out of the question, like adding toilets on the trains. ;-)
But aren't high platforms required for all new station construction per ADA?

Re: Silverliner Vs Out of Service - Schedule/Service Discuss

 by R3 Passenger ¦  Mon Jul 18, 2016 3:44 pm ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: Silverliner Vs Out of Service - Schedule/Service Discussion ¦  Replies: 496 ¦  Views: 131630

Mr. Norman: I don't know what kind of deal SEPTA has with Amtrak, but it has been reported that the MARC cars are being rented by the day. I am not familiar with railroad equipment leases and find it fascinating that there could be a HP/h metric by which these agreements could be metered. The leased...

Re: All Silverliner Vs out of service due to a structural de

 by R3 Passenger ¦  Tue Jul 12, 2016 11:37 am ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: Silverliner Vs Out of Service - Schedule/Service Discussion ¦  Replies: 496 ¦  Views: 131630

I rode the NJT set in this morning. The equipment looks like it has seen better days. I couldn't even read the number board on the ALP-46 until it was right in front of me! It was crewed by SEPTA staff with what looked like an NJT engineer (probably not right position, but he was not in SEPTA unifor...

Re: All Silverliner Vs out of service due to a structural de

 by R3 Passenger ¦  Fri Jul 08, 2016 10:26 am ¦  Forum: SEPTA (and PATCO) ¦  Topic: Silverliner Vs Out of Service - Schedule/Service Discussion ¦  Replies: 496 ¦  Views: 131630

Finding rail assets to use will not get them though this, they should be looking for buses and pick a line and do busatitution on a line or two and use the railcars they have on the longer/busier lines elsewhere. I agree--in part. I would expect that most intra-city stations have access to bus rout...

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