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Old Posted Nov 3, 2019, 1:37 AM
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Originally Posted by Qubert View Post
The fault lies not with SEPTA but with the City of Philadelphia...more specifically it's insistence on a city wage tax that ensures Center City continues to lag behind it's peers in being a center of employment for the region. Boston, Chicago and DC have far greater job concentration in their cores than Philly. As long as economic dynamism is a low priority in City Hall, nothing SEPTA can do will bring the RR system to have the ridership it's infrastructure could support.
Is employment in greater Boston really more centralized than it is in greater Philadelphia?
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