Market Frankford Line Skip Stop

[jackintosh11]

Why does the Market Frankford line still run with skip stop service? Looking at the schedule, it only saves a minute in travel time end to end.

[Nicholas Chen]

Perhaps overcrowding? The J/Z skip stop in Brooklyn only saves about 5 minutes. I'm not sure about how bad crowding is there or in Philly, so there could be other reasons.

[lefty]

The reasoning I have heard it is to make sure that people can get on the train, that if it hit every stop, people in the stops between 63rd and 15th as well as Arrot and Spring Garden might not get a seat.

[sammy2009]

My sister asked me this question over the summer , she said she always thought it was stupid lol. But it works well and helps me to get where i need to be in a good time even if it saves 5mins. But if you sat a station and watch the EL's go by i don't think you would think it would need a Skip-Stop service. But yes the EL does get crowded so it does help during peak hours instead of it being a local all day. Sometime i wish it had 4 tracks or maybe just three.

[trackwelder]

it's all about overcrowding. when it's brutally cold (like it is now) they dispense with it and all trains are all stops, so people don't have to wait out in the cold as long. i get on at berks, when i was with the 8th st welders gang, getting on at 730 am, i rarely got a seat on my usual A train. when it's an all stops train at the same time i had to fight my way in just so the doors could close.