My Transit Vision for the Delaware River Valley , the merging of SEPTA , PATCO and the Southern New Jersey Transit Divisions into a New Agency called DVRTA or Delaware Valley Regional Transit Authority. I’m not a fan of the way SEPTA is so poorly run at least on the higher up level , the employees the most part aren’t the problem in my opinion. Seeing how they are the only system that has not expanded in the last 20 years beyond a few small restorations compared to other neighboring agencies. Its very painful to see all the abandoned trackage or trackage that is used for rail trails while the highways in the region increasingly clog with congestion. The South Jersey Rail network is in a similar state as Trenton ignores its potential , and has not advanced any of the RiverLINE extensions which would greatly boost ridership.
It has taken me over 6 years to slowly build out and tweak this map which I consider the Rough draft for the final version that will be created with Adobe Illustrator or Affinity Designer and posted in PDF format. In about a year or so. I’m no stranger to the Philly Region or South Jersey have ridden just about every Rail line with the exception of Routes 10, 11, 13, 34, and 36 , Broad Street Spur , Doylestown Branch , Warminster Branch , Newark/Wilmington , and Cynwyd Line which I hope to all Ride on by next Summer. I've taken over 2600 photos across Philadelphia , Southeastern Pennsylvania and South Jersey.
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SEPTA – 332 Photos Philadelphia – 727 Photos Pennsylvania – 924 Photos New Jersey - 2,344 Photos PATCO High Speed Line – 19 Photos RiverLINE – 61 Photos Atlantic City Line – 13 Photos
Financing the system and the expansions
Given the looming funding crisis about to happen to SEPTA in 2023 I would implement a Congestion pricing zone from Washington Ave to Girard charging up 10$ du
... keep reading on reddit ➡My Original Post was too long so I split it into 2 parts. The First Part addressed the Combining SEPTA , PATCO , and the southern NJT divisions into One New Agency and the Restoring and expanding the Urban Rail. Part 2 addresses the Regional and semi Intercity Rail restorations and expansions along with bringing back the R system.
Urban Rail / Inner Suburbs Rail , Part 1
Amtrak Northeast Division
Center City Services 250mph+
-Amtrak High Speed Rail Express to DC , Making stops at Charles Center-Baltimore and DC Union
-Amtrak High Speed Rail Express to Boston , Making stops at Newark Penn , New York Penn , Jamaica-JFK , New Haven , Hartford , Worcester and Boston every 30 mins with a reduced travel time of 35mins to NYP
30th Street Station 186mph
-Amtrak Keystone Express to Pittsburgh , Making stops at Paoli , Lancaster , Harrisburg , Bedford , Pittsburgh
140mph
-Amtrak Vermonter to Montreal
-Amtrak Regional to Portland/Bangor,ME and Southern Virginia Cities (Roanoke , Richmond , Newport News , and Norfolk
-Amtrak Downstate Express to Dover and Ocean City
The New R System Service patterns
Suburban Rail – Fully Electrified S-bahn system aka the R system with addition Express service , Bi-Directional service levels
Suburban Rail Division
South Jersey Division R1: -Mount Holly Line → to Chestnut Hill East 2x trains per hr
-Atco (Atlantic City Line) → to Fox Chase – 1x per hr and Glenside 1x per hr
-Shore Service Gateway (Suburban Station , 30th Street station , Express to Lindenwold then to Rio Grande and Cape May – 2x per day Friday - Sunday
-30th Street Station to Atlantic City every 60mins peak and every 2hrs offpeak
-30th Street Station to Bridgeton every 60mins peak and every 2hrs offpeak
Western Region Division R2: -Kennett Square Line → to Warminster – 1x per hr and Chestnut Hill East – 1x per hr
-West Chester / Media Line → to Fox Chase – 1x per hr and Lansdale – 1x per hr
-Rising Sun / Kennett Square Line → Suburban Station every 45 mins during rush hour with express service after Media
-Newark/Wilmington Line → Newtown – 1x per hr
-Delaware Express , Newark local to Marcus Hook , Express to University City , all
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They're starting with Antelope Valley first http://ecomento.com/2016/02/22/antelope-valley-transit-authority-to-go-all-electric-with-85-byd-buses/ but there's more to come http://ngtnews.com/byd-receives-more-electric-bus-orders-from-california-washington/
You fucking pieces of incompetent shit. Fuck your overcrowded rickety ass buses that are what, 3 years old? And already reportedly have cracked frames because you added too many seats to maximize fairs. These seats have about 3" of leg room, and yet are set way high off the ground, so that while your knees are being crushed by the seat in front of you, your feet are dangling over the floor like you're 3 fucking years old.
Fuck your incompetent fucking lunkhead drivers who don't notice when you pull the cord for a stop, so that you end up 8 fucking blocks out of your way.
Fuck your terminal. Fuck your fucking terminal so fucking hard! You've got an area that's for the PVTA passengers, who are by and large most of the people who use the terminal, and it's this long, narrow corridor with about 20 doors leading out to the bus "docks," which people are always opening and never closing, resulting in that space being sweltering in the summer and freezing in the winter, and malodorous year round. Seriously, what is that fucking smell? It isn't BO. When you closed part of it off to build a new office and you had tarps taped in yet still had everyone who had to wait for their buses there choking on construction dust, that smell intensified tenfold. It's a bitter, poisonous, deeply unclean smell, like old formaldehyde-based plywood saturated with decades old dried shit.
Fuck the Peter Pan station, which is the bulk of the terminal. It's a ratty, stinky hellhole too, but slightly less crowded, and with this swaggering, self-important fuck of a security guard strolling around with his cap pulled down low over his eyes, resting his thumbs on his belt like a cartoon cop and smirking that insuffrable cop-smirk, asking people sitting on the benches if they are waiting for the Peter Pan buses or the "city bus" and telling them to move along if it's the latter.
So I have to get a monthly bus pass at a kiosk in downtown Springfield. The pass has a magnetic strip and is printed on this thin, flimsy paper that falls apart if you breathe on it. It comes in a little plastic sleeve along with a sturdier plastic card that is also only good for a month. So I've got this pass and this card, and yesterday evening, I'm coming home from work and try to swipe the pass as usual, and the machine on the bus makes this earsplitting "SKREEEEE!!!" noise, indicating that the pass is invalid. The driver points out that the magnetic strip looks damaged. Sure enough, some random bit of sti
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Hi everyone,
I'm putting together a specific youth education program for my local transit agency. Part of that will include interviewing peer agencies about their youth outreach programs. Have you had a good experience with your local TA? Have you seen effective education programs, for youth or other folks?
If so, please let me know which agency! As well, if you have any extra info or online resources to point me to, it would be super helpful. Thanks!
