Why not just restore NJT Rail service from Camden to Millville with one of the stops being along Glassboro??? I actually like PATCO, but my problem with the system is that they only have one line, and it's the only major heavy rail line in much of South Jersey (another one is the Atlantic City line). I'd rather see PATCO go to Cherry Hill, Maple Shade or Moorestown, Deptford, and Woodbury rather than go so far to Glassboro, and let NJT provide long distance travel to Jersey Shore destinations such as Ocean City, Wildwood, Care May, Long Beach Island, and other points such as Millville, Salem, Bridgeton, and Pennsville.
A light rail extension by PATCO is too costly because you need to build separate tracks for the light rail, separate light rail stations in Center City Camden as opposed to the current ones such as City Hall and Broadway, and while much of the light rail will use the former PRRSL ROW to Glassboro, you have to retrofit it for use as a light rail system, meaning that the conversion is too costly!!! I'd rather see NJT use those tracks than PATCO!!! A big example is the current River Line from Camden to Trenton. While the River Line is currently a viable rail route, the total cost as well as the cost overruns were so expensive, while restoring as a heavy rail route would've been much cheaper. The fact that the River Line runs at grade in downtown Camden is another reason why I'd rather have heavy rail with a rail station terminal at the WRTC on Broadway. It's just too risky to having so many potential light rail train/auto accidents happening such as the accident in Downtown Newark involving both a light rail train and an automobile.
It would've be much more smarter and much less costly to just build a multimodal terminal on Broadway for city buses, coaches, and trains, than the current WRTC, which is dirty and very outdated as a transit hub, and allow NJT to provide long distance rail service and PATCO for short distance subway service. If PATH in the NYC area is extending it's system to Newark Airport, then why can't PATCO extend it's system???
A light rail extension by PATCO is too costly because you need to build separate tracks for the light rail, separate light rail stations in Center City Camden as opposed to the current ones such as City Hall and Broadway, and while much of the light rail will use the former PRRSL ROW to Glassboro, you have to retrofit it for use as a light rail system, meaning that the conversion is too costly!!! I'd rather see NJT use those tracks than PATCO!!! A big example is the current River Line from Camden to Trenton. While the River Line is currently a viable rail route, the total cost as well as the cost overruns were so expensive, while restoring as a heavy rail route would've been much cheaper. The fact that the River Line runs at grade in downtown Camden is another reason why I'd rather have heavy rail with a rail station terminal at the WRTC on Broadway. It's just too risky to having so many potential light rail train/auto accidents happening such as the accident in Downtown Newark involving both a light rail train and an automobile.
It would've be much more smarter and much less costly to just build a multimodal terminal on Broadway for city buses, coaches, and trains, than the current WRTC, which is dirty and very outdated as a transit hub, and allow NJT to provide long distance rail service and PATCO for short distance subway service. If PATH in the NYC area is extending it's system to Newark Airport, then why can't PATCO extend it's system???