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It is not just about commuters. More frequent regional rail service would make it easier for students and others to get around.

Suburban rail in other world cities operate every 15 minutes or less including in little Adelaide, Australia which only has a metro pop of 1 million.

You have to beef up the transit service or people will not use it. Actually the fact that only just over 100,000 riders a day are carried on such a large regional rail network, shows that the system is not capturing as many people as it could.

Another issue with SEPTA is their bus routes. If you look at a map it is very easy to see that the suburban bus routes are really only designed to get poor people from inner city Philadelphia to suburban work destinations and malls. The routes are not designed at all for suburbanites to use to get around to access rapid transit.