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Originally Posted by PhilliesPhan
Amazon would be hard-pressed to find a site with better transit accessibility than Schuykill Yards anywhere else in the nation. There, you have the El and trolleys (with free interchange to the BSL), several bus lines, all 13 Regional Rail lines (with the Airport Line providing a quick trip to PHL), and Amtrak all housed within the most beautiful train station on the Northeast Corridor.
Public transportation access alone is exactly why Philly needs to ditch any notion of having Amazon locate in the Navy Yard or the Far Northeast, and promote the shit out of Schuylkill Yards.
By the way, SEPTA holds up pretty well compared to the T, MTA, and WMATA. Where SEPTA may come up short in system breadth (its system breadth is very comparable to Boston's, imo), it makes up for in reliability. The MTA and WMATA have all kind of reliability issues right now. SEPTA also has several 24/7 routes and 24 hour subway service on weekends, which is more service than the T provides.
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The only advantages SEPTA has over the T is that it runs 24/7 on weekends and one of the subway lines (the BSL) has express service. Other than that, the T is expanding its Green Line from Lechmere in Csmbtidge to Union Sq in Sometville to points in Medford, as well as future plans to extend the Blue Line to Lynn and another subway line from Downtown Boston to Readville, which I can see possibly happening in the near future. And if the T can revive service to Watertown via the 'A' Green Line, than that would be very great considering that although Boston is a city of only 670k people, it's urban core is about close to Philadelphia's.
Philadelphia used to have an extensive commuter rail system linking cities such as West Chester, Reading, Lancaster, Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton to Philadelphia as well as points in South Jersey. Now, there's only a subway line linking Philadelphia to Lindenwold and a commuter rail to Atlantic City. All the commuter rail lines on the PA side have been greatly reduced to the point that you can't make a one-seat train ride from Phila to the formerly mentioned PA cities, you have to travel via auto or bus, which is a shame considering what Phila had regarding its rail system being the third largest behind only NYC and Chicago.
Also, there's no plans to expand our subway system unlike plans in Boston, DC, or never cities like Miami, Atlanta, SF, or even LA. Philadelphia, overall, although we're the fifth or sixth largest (depends on who you ask), we have a 20th century mindset considering we're in the 21st century and this reflects on the Commonwealth too, which hasn't fully embraced Phila the way New York State embraces NYC, MA embraces Boston, IL embraces Chicago, FL embraces Miami, Orlando, and Tampa, and CA embraces LA and SF. There's a reason why Phila slipped from fifth to sixth place, and if we don't grow economically, we're going to lose out to cities like San Antonio, Dallas, San Diego, San Jose, and Austin amongst Ametican cities and metro areas like Atlanta and Miami.
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