Providing express service - where certain trains skip some stops to achieve speedier trips - all day longĪt a public meeting Wednesday night, officials and consultants made clear SEPTA eventually wants to do all three of those things.

Providing more frequent service (every 15 minutes) at stations with the most demand.Providing service every 30 minutes at every station.On Wednesday, SEPTA unveiled three options for how it should prioritize its investments to make change, asking users (or would-be users) to choose between three scenarios: With more people working remotely or on flexible schedules, planning primarily around a traditional commute for white-collar workers just doesn’t make sense. This is a result of past decisions to focus on suburban trips.”Īnother factor is the changing nature of work, said Ryan Judge, SEPTA’s director of strategic planning and analysis. “Low-income people and people of color, trips outside of peak periods, and nonwork trips account for a small portion of overall Regional Rail ridership,” the recent report noted, “even though Regional Rail serves areas where there are many such trips happening. In general, Regional Rail was designed to serve “9-to-5 suburban commuters,” SEPTA leaders acknowledged at a Wednesday night public meeting. Regional Rail has been isolated from the rest for various reasons, SEPTA said in a recent report: transferring between buses and rail is difficult, many stations aren’t set up well for people without cars, fares are not integrated between different modes of transit, schedules are difficult to understand, trains are unreliable and slow

The project aims to make public transit options in the Philadelphia area better fit the needs of people who use - or would use, if not for existing issues - the region’s buses, trolleys, subways, Norristown High Speed Line and Regional Rail.

This survey and the promised forthcoming improvements are part of a larger effort called SEPTA Forward.

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