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I checked Wikipedia. Rail expansion on SEPTA is pure fantasy. There's a better chance of seeing MagLev service under Market East in the next 500 years.

Amtrak7: do those costs include the wear and tear on the roadways? Since ALL of the true costs of operating buses over trains are never accurately compared, buses are always going to come out on top. Under the logic that we should only operate what's cheaper on paper, the region might as well scrap ...

R3 Passenger: Unfortunately the precedent has been with us for quite a long time. Using bus to expand service might appear efficient to "planners" in implementing service at low cost, but really it isn't. Aside from the numbers that show operational costs per rider are lower on rail vs. bu...

How many potential riders are staying in their car because they don't want to ride a bus? How many riders are we losing because their stations are not getting service (North Philly, Bridesburg, Tacony, Holmesburg Junction, Torresdale)? How hard would it be to take an existing train out on the system...

how about a statewide rail operator that does ALL passenger rail service in the state. It could be called the "Pennsylvania Railroad".

Why not do what the airlines do with boarding passes? You can buy on your phone, get the barcode and get it scanned by someone with a handheld, or buy at home, print it out and take with you on the train. Its odd that since the ticket machines went away, there's been no stop-gap measure with on-line...

Where is the cost savings when the majority of riders now use trail/transpasses, and the new system will still accept cash? What's to keep the same crowd of 100 Villanova kids stampeding a Friday night Villanova-Bryn Mawr tain, all paying in cash, and more than half walking off without paying becaus...

Security risks involving RFID technology is nothing new. Hopefully it doesn't take a link to a you-tube video on railroad.net to open up SEPTA"s eyes. RFID crimes are more prevelant now since the technology is more widespread (gas cards, door keys, credit cards, and in other cities, transit far...

There's been some curious discussion about how well the proposed SEPTA system will work. A group of officials held a closed-door forum and decided that a two way fare system would be best, with fare gates in center city and an RFID tag-out system at outlying stations and inner-city stations. Those i...

How much security is going into this RFID system to prevent wedges from being placed on remote tag out stations?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW3RGbQTLhE

I'm curious to know what the railroad.net community thinks of SEPTA's plan to go with an RFID system on their "commuter rail" system, which essentially involves smart cards and turnstiles. http://www.septa.org/fares/npt/ Q: Will the NPT system use new equipment to collect fares? A: Yes. Yo...

Meanwhile, the OTHER traffic backup story of the day, with almost half the daily volume as 422 and with a bus getting NOWHERE

Bob, your assessment is correct, there will be no rail expansion anywhere in the future. Polarization is sometimes necessary because of the poor ideas coming from the "planners" who are coming up with crackpot proposals. We see it in 422, Wawa and in Jenkintown. The region's next bad trans...

I don't know Matt, it sounded to me like people were jumping ship and ready to bury the project. Joe Hoeffel came out and said they can toll the road without the train The Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce said they don't support the project And not a single resident spoke out in favor of the pl...

It's great that AT&T made cell-phone service continuous for safety purposes. Ten times out of 11, I believe this is downloaded music anyway. It would have to be an iphone to use AT&T, and iphones have half decent speakers. Ever so gently, remind that person that a phone is not a radio! The ...