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Originally Posted by cardeza
Any such conversation is a national conversation. Transit is about national funding and prioritization. Philly nor any other city is doing anything major in terms of transit expansion without major federal funding and focus. Its pointless to talk about that in the local context.
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Phoenix is expanding its light rail system.
Denver is building an electric regional rail system
from scratch.
LA is extending the Purple Line.
Chicago is extending the Red Line.
NYC has one or two subway extensions being built at any given time.
Honolulu is getting a metro.
It’s not just that there are problems at the federal level (there are, don’t get me wrong), but Philadelphia certainly is being screwed by its state government.
If SEPTA got the money per rider that the CTA or even the MBTA gets, we’d see SEPTA’s backlog of infrastructure upgrades and repairs be cleared, which would allow them to allocate more money towards expansion.
Right now the only proposed expansion of SEPTA’s subways or trolleys is a line serving the suburbs and a 2 mile extension of the BSL south. Neither have started construction nor have either gotten far in the engineering phase.