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Originally Posted by volguus zildrohar
I don't see how WSC could possibly do that.
A) The Market Street subway is city property. The city doesn't have that kind of cash.
B) The Subway is leased to SEPTA. SEPTA isn't going to commit that kind of money to something that big right now between the MSE project and the acquisition of new railcars.
C) Anything of that nature is wayyyyyyyy beyond the jurisdiction of a private entity. As ambitious as this whole project is, this company has never developed anything of this scale before. Adding a subway station, while nice, is kind of wearing too many hats for them.
I came across this on PhillyBlog as well - The El will not be re-routed and station construction would be a major physical undertaking, requiring a realignment of the current four track configuration of the subway and widening of the tunnel possibly encroaching on property lines and I don't know if eminent domain can be claimed on skyscraper sub-basements.
I'd love to see it happen (it would be quite convenient for me) but it doesn't look possible right now to me. And personally if I were placing the station I would make 19th Street a transfer station - it's a convergence point for several bus routes and kind of a center point between the Rittenhouse Square area and the Parkway area, north to south. Since ACC would rise on 19th Street anyway, bringing the concourse down there to Market would work too (on paper, anyway).
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While the ACC is a very ambitious project, and has my fullest support, I still feel that the subway infrastructure in this city is very outdated, IMO. The MFL should've had an express trunk line, totaling four tracks instead of the common two, but then again, you can blame the forefathers of the city's subway system for that messup, as they didn't realize that sooner or later, the city west of Broad St would expand.
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