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Originally Posted by eixample
New subways would be great but I just can't see that practically happening, at least in center city. The narrow streets mean it is really annoying to build subways too. I think we could do a lot with sped up buses (see bus only lanes). Also we could do a lot with more frequent and reliable circumferential bus routes (routes that run more or less perpendicular to the subway/el, like the 79 bus on Snyder Avenue, the 15 trolley on Girard or the 52 bus on 52nd street). Now that we've gotten rid of transfers, those will become more useful.
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I think it would be so cool to have a circle line in Philadelphia on the wider streets bookending Center City. Something that ran down Washington, up Delaware Avenue to Girard, Girard to somewhere in West Philly (40th Street?) back down to Washington. It would connect (obviously) where it intersects with the existing lines.