by Bensalem SEPTA rider
Why can't SEPTA simply send the R6 line to Reading instead of this "Metro" contraption?
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Clearfield wrote:In short:All you would have to do is extend double tracking and cantnary to Reading. Then have the NS allow for some slots into the line and build the stations.
SEPTA doesn't own the ROW past Norristown. NS does.
No catenary past Norristown, and no diesels in the CCCT.
It ain't simple.......
jfrey40535 wrote:Or do what the Reading did, buy some RDC's (many are still in service today) and run them to NTC. People can then transfer to a waiting MU at NTC and head on to CC, or the Rt 100 to 69th St.Actually, that's what NS is reportedly going to present as its plan (except it would be locomotive hauled coaches), now that the SVM project is no longer a SEPTA project.
Bensalem SEPTA rider wrote:All you would have to do is extend double tracking and catenary to Reading. Then have the NS allow for some slots into the line and build the stations.Getting the slots is not as easy as you think. NS will want improvements to its infrastructure to add capacity, especially if SEPTA wants to run as much service as is on R6 now, let alone the higher-frequency service SEPTA was planning. Figure some sections of third main track, additional interlockings, and some signal work. Probably several hundred million, but it's a lot cheaper than SEPTA's plan to have a separate passenger track/tracks the entire way.