fairviewroad
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I'm trying to wrap my mind around this. During the Pope's visit to Philly on September 26 and 27, SEPTA will severely curtail its service. For example:
The idea seems to be to funnel Papal fans to specific stations so that trains can simply load and go into Center City. But what about parking at those stations? They're not designed to handle an entire trainload of passengers.
The Broad Street and Market-Frankford Lines will operate under similar restrictions, even though those routes must surely be used by transit-dependent people who will still need to get to work, etc, that weekend. Basically, the only SEPTA rail service that will operate largely unchanged will be the Subway Surface lines, except Route 10 which will not operate at all.
Basically SEPTA and Philadelphia's plan seems to be "If you aren't here to see the Pope, you're not welcome this weekend."
You can get a detailed overview here.
Those 31 stations include just one or two stops on each line. [see map below.] Tickets will be reserved and sold only in advance. [Among other things, you won't be able to do the NJT-SEPTA connection in Trenton, since SEPTA won't even be serving Trenton that weekend.]SEPTA will reduce the number of stations that will be used from the usual 282 to 31 on its Regional Rail, Market-Frankford Line subway/elevated, Broad Street Line subway, trolley lines and Norristown High Speed Line.
The idea seems to be to funnel Papal fans to specific stations so that trains can simply load and go into Center City. But what about parking at those stations? They're not designed to handle an entire trainload of passengers.
The Broad Street and Market-Frankford Lines will operate under similar restrictions, even though those routes must surely be used by transit-dependent people who will still need to get to work, etc, that weekend. Basically, the only SEPTA rail service that will operate largely unchanged will be the Subway Surface lines, except Route 10 which will not operate at all.
Basically SEPTA and Philadelphia's plan seems to be "If you aren't here to see the Pope, you're not welcome this weekend."
You can get a detailed overview here.