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wanderer34 wrote:IThere was a time when one could go from Center City Phila to Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton, Reading, Lancaster, Oxford PA, and West Chester by rail, but somehow in the 80's, SEPTA cut a lot of diesel service, and this affected a lot of the outlying communities from reaching Phila by rail, and a a result people who loved in communities like Pottstown, Newtown, Quakertown, Wawa, Coatesville and Kennett Square were forced to commute with their cars to nearby park and ride facilities such as Norristown, Paoli, Lansdale, and Elwyn.
AlexC wrote:Passenger rail had not been and currently is not profitable. Historical passenger service was possible because freight railroads basically subsidized their own passenger service - it was good advertising for their freight product.
wanderer34 wrote:The subway service, while you can go north, south, west, and northeast, doesn't even reach much of the northeast, northwest, southwest, and suburbs like Jenkintown, Norristown, Bensalem, Darby, and Chester.
wanderer34 wrote:Isn't SEPTA's primary responsibility supposed to be providing mass transit service within Southeastern PA??? I don't remember this agency being called just the PTA alone but SEPTA, meaning not just the Greater Philadelphia area, but the Lehigh Valley and Pennsylvania Dutch Country.
SCB2525 wrote:Doesn't make up for the rail-to-trail firesale, IF it even happens (and I'm not holding my breath).
ExCon90 wrote:Bear in mind that SEPTA is only authorized to operate in the five-county area. Other counties had the option of helping to support service to Bethlehem and Reading, and declined. Any expansion beyond SEPTA's present area would have to start with the Governor and the Legislature, and it's not hard to guess how far that would go.
ExCon90 wrote:(Is Butler County's Gift To The Commonwealth still in control of such matters in the House?)
bikentransit wrote:Gee, it only took 20 years. Why are they moving so fast?
mcgrath618 wrote:Will any of the original station structure remain intact, or is this building going to be entirely new? They could probably afford to rip out some of the branch line tracks and expand the station onto that, being that it will be a terminus stop.
mcgrath618 wrote:Will any of the original station structure remain intact, or is this building going to be entirely new? They could probably afford to rip out some of the branch line tracks and expand the station onto that, being that it will be a terminus stop.
Suburban Station wrote:mcgrath618 wrote:Will any of the original station structure remain intact, or is this building going to be entirely new? They could probably afford to rip out some of the branch line tracks and expand the station onto that, being that it will be a terminus stop.
it has not yet been determined whether it will remain a terminus
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