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Originally Posted by PHL10
....meanwhile PATCO is ending overnight service at 9th and Locust starting tomorrow. They are a strange organization sometimes. They are in the process of opening a new station while decreasing the service at another.
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Actually 9th and locust is the only station that isn't having their overnight service reduced..... Because it was already ended years ago. The lack of overnight service to 9th and locust is unrelated to current service reduction. And while I'm all for increased service, to be fair to patco this station is a ghost town at night and there is another stop a 5 min walk away. Maybe this project will inject some more life into the area so keeping the 9th and locust station open 24/7 makes sense.
Every other station is seeing a service reduction between 12am and 4am on weekdays and 2am and 5am on weekends where trains will be reduced to once an hour from once every 45 minutes. It stinks, but a big improvement from their previous plans to cut overnight service from like half of the stations and even further reduce train frequency.
It's being sold as a public safety improvement as there will now be a cop on each train, but it's pretty clearly a service reduction. A lot of people still fighting against this but what we really need is more people to ride PATCO overnight. It's hard to fight for more frequent trains when they claim only an average of 200 people a night ride the train during the hours they're reducing service.