SEPTA taking input on rail service to King of Prussia Mall
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SEPTA taking input on rail service to King of Prussia Mall
Proposed rail service to King of Prussia will be examined by SEPTA officials in three public sessions in Montgomery County next week.
Tuesday, 4 to 8 p.m. at Valley Forge Visitors Center.
Wednesday, 4 to 8 p.m. at Villanova University.
Thursday, 4 to 8 p.m. at Montco Planning Commission.
In other Montco news, a cold-weather warning remains in effect. And the commissioners are holding their second town-hall meeting tonight in Ardmore. Visit the county website, montcopa.org, for full details.
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NO!— lostinthebigcity- And to Newtown, and to Reading, and the Cross County Metro!! Bout time they expand rail service so people don't have to drive everywhere.— zsaru
- @lostinthebigcity: Why are you against this?
@zsaru: They were going to build the Metro but Corbett and Harrisburg refused to fund it, and local drivers and politicians determined that tolling 422 - which would have also paid for rebuilding and widening - was not something they were willing to do.— PennGrad13 - Unfortunately a lot of transit money has been wasted on plazas, museums, an stadiums while commuters sit in traffic and wait for their late train.— damnels
- Where was this idea, say, about 20 years ago? It all boils down to the fact that SEPTA and other public agencies in the Philadelphia area are provincial in nature and do not look at the good of the region.— FletcherT
- Why not busses from Chester so they can ruin King Of Prussia Mall the way they ruined Springfield Mall— leroy white
- Of course, the region could always hope for the ideas of Fast Eddie Rendell, who proposed tolling I-80 to fund SEPTA and its bureaucratic form of provincial government. Nothing like having someone else pay for your bureaucracy.— FletcherT
It's an idea whose time has come. Many workers at the mall, and the surrounding office parks, rely on overcrowded buses that are delayed in 202, 476, and 76 traffic. It's also something that SEPTA's predecessor, the private PSTC, had tried to build in the 60s. Unfortunately, planning at the time was entirly anti-transit, and they were prevented from extending their network into a rapidly growing part of the region. Just a few years before PennDOT had killed their most popular route, from West Chester to Upper Darby, when they widened West Chester Pike and refused to allow PSTC to rebuild their tracks.
So the history of this is that the 100% taxpayer funded highways PA 3 and US 202 prevented private business from expanding, or even maintaining their business, eventually driving them into bankruptcy and forcing the state to create the underrated, underfunded, and absolutely essential SEPTA.— Pelti- SEPTA can't even afford to fix the bridge between Norristown and Bridgeport. How are they going to build a whole new line? Btw, I guess the authors missed Bruce Castor and the Raphael Robb story being mentioned on the O'Reilly show on Tuesday night. They even put a picture of Bruce on the TV screen.— Phillies2008WSChamps
- Septa trains must be equipped with restrooms to be able to serve properly and well. Otherwise, let NJ Transit run our system, as they can do it, and do it well, and then we can be connected to their extensive system.— Zindorf
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