Septa Trolley Modernization - Alstom Fleet

Both stories may be correct, in their fashion. According to a story in the Inquirer, the property needed for employee parking is adjacent to the site under discussion but not part of it and will have to be negotiated separately with different owners. I hope it goes through -- it's convenient to 49th and Market, thus handy to the 11, 13, and 36, and far enough from residential areas not to cause NIMBY problems. And handier to the 34 than the Elmwood site.

"Wouldn't-You-Know" Department:

The Inquirer reports today that the Amazon 140,000-square-foot package distribution center, complete with "pristine black asphalt parking spaces for 300 cars and 600 vans and trailers," hasn't opened yet, nearly a year after major construction was completed, and Amazon is keeping mum about when it will. While the project was under construction, Amazon's fortunes declined and the project is temporarily (?) on hold. The State Senator who championed the project in 2021 is quoted as saying, "they are not communicating ... It is really, really, really insulting." The story then adds that he now wishes he had supported SEPTA's plan.