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Originally Posted by mville1
Did you endure the grinding commute on 283 or take the train? A former coworker of mine, when I worked in downtown Lancaster, left to take a job working for a nonprofit in downtown Harrisburg. He lived in Lancaster city and would walk a few blocks to the train station, hop on Amtrak to Harrisburg and then walk a few blocks to his office. It has made me wonder how many people were using Amtrak between Harrisburg and Lancaster before Covid as a defacto commuter rail service.
I now work for one of the museums outside Lancaster so I miss seeing all of the projects going on in the city. Although, I do not miss driving through the city when it snows! Lancaster city is terrible at snow removal. Currently, my one coworker commutes from Hummelstown and she has many horror stories of commuting on 283 during bad weather or getting caught in the backlog from an accident. Just makes me wish Corridor One was not thrown into the trash heap of failed rail transit projects.
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When it comes to restoring rail infrastructure and service, the Commonwealth of PA sucks big time. I thought Corridor One was a great idea and it would've connected Central PA cities like Lancaster, Reading, Lebanon, York, and Carlisle with Harrisburg.
The fact that the Commonwealth couldn't subsidize a simple project like Corridor One is the biggest blunder that PA has committed, not to mention restoring and expanding the former right of ways in SEPTA's commuter rail system from Philadelphia to Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton, Reading, Lancaster, and West Chester.
SEPTA could've done a favor to those outlying communities by allowing diesel trains to run through the Center City Commuter Tunnel, but at the last minute, SEPTA decided not to do that, and as a result, routes became truncated which is why SEPTA only runs trains from Center City from Philadelphia to Lansdale, Norristown, Coatesville, and Elwyn as opposed to the further destinations.