CEO and General Manager Leslie S. Richards told the Philadelphia Business JournalBuilding a subway-elevated rail line down the median of Roosevelt Boulevard would cost at least $3 billion, Richards said.
Like any expensive transit project, a boulevard subway may be a long shot amid intense competition for funding, but until this week» READ MORE:Arzu, the transportation scholar, said he was surprised by Richards’ comments, adding that she “is being honest about SEPTA’s situation,” and he appreciates that.
A Boulevard subway could draw up to 124,500 daily riders, according to a 2003 city Planning Commission study. SEPTA’s current $1.1 billion capital budget is its largest ever, but some big metropolitan systems regularly have twice that for upgrades. According to SEPTA, similar regions around the U.S. have invested an average of 75% more in transit than Southeastern Pennsylvania. Metro Denver, for example spends $120 per capita annually, to $17 per capita contributed from the governments of Philadelphia and its four suburban counties, SEPTA says in its budget documents.
tomfitzgerald you failed to mention the race and class issues surrounding an organization controlled by suburbanites refusing to invest in the city.
Boulevard light rail i guess
Yet they’ve got no problem with spending $2 billion for KOP rail. What’s up with that?
We will not give, build the Roosevelt Boulevard Subway! 110 years is too long to wait.
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