As a reminder, SEPTA is running modified schedules for the holiday season. City transit schedules have been adjusted for the weekdays through December 31st. Christmas Day will have a Sunday/Holiday schedule on the transit side and less than that on Regional Rail. Extra late-night Regional Rail service has been added [PDF] for New Year’s Eve …
Monthly Archives: December 2012
Bridgeport Viaduct: the canary in the capital funding coalmine
I was out of town on business these last two weeks, and plenty has been going down in my absence which I’ll be playing catch-up on, but the really big news is SEPTA’s announcement that it will be closing the Bridgeport Viaduct next summer due to deteriorating safety conditions. The Bridgeport Viaduct is the Norristown …
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Trains are better than buses
There is a part of me that wishes that the sentence that makes up the subject line of this post wasn’t true, but in many ways it is objective reality. Because people prefer to ride trains over buses, as an almost universally revealed sentiment. Of course, people still ride buses, even when given a direct …
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