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Originally Posted by PHL10
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I'd rather have the A/B skip stop service then overhauling the service and increasing the frequency. In a hyper perfect world, the El would become a four-track underground subway from 69th St all the way to Philadelphia Park/Parx or Neshaminy Mall with an elevated structure from Upper Darby to Darby/Colwyn.
But since we have an outdated two-track line, we have to use what we have and stick with the A/B skip stop service. What I hate about SEPTA is that it doesn't even do it's damndest towards serving it's communities the way NYC, Boston, Bay Area, Chicago, and DC does. Cancelling service and cutting lines either subway or commuter rail is not what SEPTA needs to do.
SEPTA needs to use what it has and maybe expand it's subway-surface system with lines on Whitby Ave and even extending the Lansdowne Ave line from 63rd St to Morris Park and Lancaster Ave from 52nd St to 63rd St. SEPTA can still restore service on it's regional rail system and even reintroduce the alphanumeric designations because the way SEPTA is running the regional rail system is not only confusing, but it's inefficient considering the Cynwyd line used to be part of the old R6 line until SEPTA took that away and made a shorter line, which is the reason why SEPTA doesn't run as much as it used to.
I still say that if SEPTA wants more riders, all it has to do is run 8-10 car sets in stead of the current 6 car sets excluding the Broad Ridge Spur, and revive commuter rail service to Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton, Reading, Lancaster, and West Chester, and one can hope if NJ Transit can do the same by restoring the old lines from Canden and Philadelphia to Ocean City, Cape May, Salem, Pennsville, Vineland and Millville, and even another service to Toms River.