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Friday, November 21, 2008

$3 million trolley to nowhere on Germantown Ave

Residents and businesses expected a trolley on Germantown Ave
Posted by Ben Waxman @ 11:25 AM  Permalink | 1 comment
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 12:33 AM, 11/22/2008
    Explain your headline ... is Germantown Avenue really "nowhere"? The street was being rebuilt anyway and if this almost-mile long segment was removed, it would have made useless the other 24 miles of the route and infrastructure. Route #23 is due to be restored as a streetcar line. This is timely as America works toward replacing foreign oil with clean domestic electricity. Since 2000, forty American cities are either operating, building or planning streetcar systems. The transit authority has almost 150 streetcars, but there's a shortage for the other routes they run. SEPTA committed to restoring the line when it was "temporarily" suspended some years ago and the neighboring communities you label as "nowhere" are keeping pressure up to restore the line, which makes sense since the infrastructure is essentially intact so there is no reason not to maintain the asset.
    — LouRugani


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