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Originally Posted by sayitaintso
Here is what i just sent in a quick incoherent ramble
To whom it may concern:
All Subway lines -- Headways--10 minutes outside of rush hour should be cut to every 5 minutes and 20minutes!! after midnight is unacceptable bring down to 5-6x per hour. This new program is a success let’s add to its popularity by making it permanent and more convenient.
Regional Rail -- More frequent service. 1x per hour on weekend is a disgrace for a city of our size. Run it more frequently 3x per hour and it becomes a real option resulting in ridership increases.
For stations inside the city limits there should be subway like headways: 6x per hour during workday and min 3x per hour other. Create crossovers at city limits to allow trains to head back in other direction.
In Center City Buses should only stop every 2 or 3 blocks. There is no need to stop every corner. It slows everything down and makes traffic much worse. If you want to get off on 15th and Walnut and the bus on stops on 16th it won’t kill anyone to walk an additional block. They are already doing a lot of walking if they use SEPTA in the first place!
Same for the trolleys on Baltimore Ave. There is no need to stop every corner. The maps should be updated with dedicated stops every 5 blocks once it comes out of the tunnel. Then no one is more than 2.5 blocks from a desired destination. Again the added speed and reduced traffic are a welcome convenience for this slight change.
On a infrastructure related note we need at least 2 more subway lines and probably four. I wish someone would take charge and work on a practical 20 year plan that utilizes public private partnerships and federal funding.
1) We need a central circulator .
2) New line running up front all the way to Alleghany. Allegheny to Fairmount Park and back down 33rd to the museum and then down the parkway back to Broad
A new line up 7th from Pattison to Allegheny. Looping underneath Pattison to broad and back up. Across Allegheny to Broad and back down
A new line up 21st from Pattison to Allegheny. Looping underneath Pattison to broad and back up. Across Allegheny to Broad and back down
This should not be all that difficult to achieve over the next 20 years using a PPP structure
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Are these regional rail headways actually possible though? I feel like the system already has capacity issues at rush hour. You might have to add a lot of new track to the system to get headways that are any more frequent than already provided. Same issue with the new subways running as loops utilizing Broad. If all the trains are running under Broad it would be difficult to have frequent headways on all the lines.