Levittown replacement official!!!

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Wow!

The rundown Levittown Train Station will be replaced with an estimated $24 million modern facility, officials said Friday.

“This is a long time in coming,” Lt. Gov. James Cawley, of Middletown, said during the celebratory announcement at the station off Route 13 and the Levittown Parkway in Tullytown. “The design of the 1950s has far outlived its usefulness.”

The station, built in 1953, is the third-busiest stop on the Trenton Regional Rail Line, SEPTA officials said. About 1,264 commuter trips begin or end at the station on an average weekday.

Plans to reconstruct the station have been on hold for about two years due to state funding cuts, SEPTA officials said at Friday’s ceremonial kickoff.

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I'm excited, but i hardly use the station anymore haha.

[kiha40]

Where does all that 24m dollars go? Does it have to cost that much?

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Pretty amazing stuff!!!!

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[BPP1999]

Where does all that 24m dollars go? Does it have to cost that much?

Because if they conserved money and spent it wisely, they might have some left over, which means they'd have to seriously look at expansion, and we all know they don't want to do that.

[scotty269]

Wow.

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Very handsome station though it almost seems true to a historical design that never actually existed there nor reflects the name. Something modern and pleasing like Somerton but on a high platform with a tunnel/bridge seems more appropriate and less costly.

Has the station formally been renamed "Levittown" as opposed to "Levittown-Tullytown"? I find it odd that Tullytown seems to have been left by the wayside in terms of being in the station name and to have "Historic Bucks County" on it at the same time. The station is in Tullytown; the current station replaced "Tullytown" station; and Tullytown is the historic locality, Levittown being an unincorporated town of tract housing only coming into existence in the 1950s WITHIN other municipalities.

[R36 Combine Coach]

The Levittown station is indeed in Tullytown and a SEPTA sign does have the "Levittown-Tullytown" name. SEPTA (at least in recent years) uses "Levittown" only. Perhaps the reason is that Tullytown is best known (infamously) for a large landfill (GROWS).

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I'd rather be known as a resident of Tullytown (dump and all), Middletown, Falls or Bristol than of Levittown.

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Looking at those renderings; I understand if the footbridge is for ADA but if they also fill in the existing tunnel it would be quite wasteful.

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Looking at those renderings; I understand if the footbridge is for ADA but if they also fill in the existing tunnel it would be quite wasteful.

It is my understanding that the underpass entrances will be underneath the high level platforms. In theory, they could be used for routing conduits or storage. They will not be filled in, but probably covered with steel plate doors and forgotten.

I agree, it should be renamed tullytown, as levittown municipal border is on the other side of rt 13.

If you look at the current layout you can see the dead end street used to cross over the tracks. There are concrete blocks there now, which will likely be moved.

To me this station being rebuilt is the first step in reversing the ugly decline of former working middle class areas. I cannot wait to see it and other stations rebuilt, so that SEPTA can finally fight declining rider numbers by rebuilding the commuter railroad network in southeastern pennsylvania, one bit at a time.


Original tullytown PRR station. Grade crossing, ped crossing, and crossing guard hut.

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The darker area is mostly levittown. Tullytown actually fully encompasses the "levittown shopping center" as seen with the red dashed municipal boundary.

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Levittown on the other hand is clearly discernible with its unique style of street patterns.....

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I'd support a full rename to tullytown upon completion........

[R36 Combine Coach]

To be officially detailed: PennDOT Tullytown map and Bucks County

[Clearfield]

Where does all that 24m dollars go? Does it have to cost that much?

Because if they conserved money and spent it wisely, they might have some left over, which means they'd have to seriously look at expansion, and we all know they don't want to do that.

This is the political process at work.

[CComMack]

The thing about Levittown proper, is that while we associate all of the original Levittowns with touching off the wave of postwar suburban sprawl, they were laid out from the beginning to support circulator bus routes and children riding bicycles. The street plans are schematically mini-grids, and completely lack cul-de-sacs; the Levittown design predates a lot of what we "know" about suburbia, including cars being cheap enough to enable universal two-car households. If you started running aggressive feeder bus routes from the station into the Levittown subdivisions, you could cut car ownership rates and boost RRD ridership with a greater degree of financial sustainability than any parking expansion. And you could be more thorough in those accomplishments than you could in any of the sprawlburbs that came later, mimicking Levittown's style. And Levittown still has just enough community identity and cohesion that it could, if it so chose, (*ahem*) raise the funds for supporting the startup of such service.

Handy, then, that this new Levittown Station is being designed from the start with bus bays to accommodate multiple buses simultaneously.

The drawback to having all those buses feeding into Levittown Station, of course, is that you have an increasing number of Levittowners commuting north, not south...