Schools on the mainline tend to be more basketball focused, no?

S Line 👀

So unnerving to have cars on one side of you zipping around that turn doing 50 and this on the other side

Seems like something that doesn't add much right now, but becomes a game changer once RRR gets us 10- 15min headways at all the transfer points along that route

Also run it to Trenton for Amtrak transfers

They're in service!!??

SEPTA also distorts it with a fare penalty for RR. Intra-city trips usually don't make sense on RR because the bus / metro is cheaper, and the short distance keeps the time penalty from being too bad. Afaik, this is common in the US but not Europe where S-Bahn and RER are priced like metros

In fairness, this is attempt number 3 this century. The last two were SEPTA extensions.

I think a good end game for this corridor is a Keystone like service running Harrisburg -> Reading -> Philly -> NYC on top of 20min RR headways to Pottstown. This project would be a decent first step.

Purely on the rolling stock side, are the SEPTA Silverliners (at least the V's) already compatible with the proposed service patterns?

Chronically short staffed and behind schedule is literally what efficiency looks like. Great service costs more money and is not efficient

Funniest thing to me is that the one stretch of track outside CC that does have consistent level boarding is all those stations between Lansdale and Doylestown that get like 2 riders per day each

Got down this rabbit hole recently. Here is the map, and a link to a (maybe the most?) recent upgrade. $15M / station applied to 107 more stations gets you to $1.6B to do the whole system. $ does not account for some stations being more challenging than Conshohocken. wwww.septa.org/news/conshoh...

If there's an infinite source of revenue out there, we should probably use it to make nice things like frequent trains that run on time. Or even just re-pave the Schuylkill itself

Villanova's going to have to get SEPTA key advantage just so students can get from class to class

RBS and higher frequency on existing RR lines are lower hanging fruit. But this project really should be revived, ideally with a similar project serving Allentown. Those 2 cities and many of the small towns along the lines were built for frequent train service and are constrained without it.

I could see commissioners being concerned at the president of a venue built with no taxpayer funding

Implied at the start, but should have said at the end that he goes way past the point of diminishing return

I like @alonlevy.bsky.social's alt. proposal to get the same stretch to 47min with far lower impact ROW changes (but the trains do max at 200mph)

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Reading, Lancaster, and even Harrisburg are all in, but Allentown and Bethlehem are out?

Terrible timing to it all. Nick Castellanos would have had a career day if it was during baseball season