Submitted by beancounter2885 t3_11ebatx in philadelphia
If memory serves, weren't there trolleys along Deleware Ave back in the 70s?
Tracks are still in the middle of the lanes in some places
That's freight right of way- not trolley if I'm not mistaken.
It is owned and maintained by CSX, but trolleys ran on it up until 1995.
Penn’s Landing trolley - ran from 1982 to 1996
Quite the oddball always forget about it
Up until the 90s
All they need to do is extend the frankford loop down Delaware ave. The tracks are there and are already separated by road traffic. This is the missing piece even if they only run it down to the Walmart center.
It would really help with sporting events down there, maybe put the station at the other end of Pattison near Jetro lot to help split up the crowds after events
This is erotic fan fiction for those dreaming of the riverfront
not many worse cases besides LA of a city intentionally dismantling its public transit for the sake of cars, is there
Worse, the scrap metal was sold to the Japanese in the late '30s.
i wonder what they used it for
Sreampunk art, of course
Truly. Destroyed the entire waterfront while we were at it.
California is also a state that suffers from droughts and still desires to produce Almonds which use more water than plenty of other crops.
what's your point
California is pretty irrational
There was a point where the delaware ave el was around at the same time as the Frankford el. It operated as a branch up until just after the Ben Franklin Bridge was built, and the ferries became less useful. The ferries still allowed for a direct connection to the Pennsylvania-Reading sea shore lines from old city, which was a passanger train service that operated out of a Camden water front terminal to the shore. I think they went to cape may, wild wood, ocean city, Atlantic city, and made stops all throughout south jersey. Imagine something like the terminal in jersey city that allows you to take a ferry to New York.
RETVRN
Where was the dope stop back then?
BroadStreetRandy t1_jad8348 wrote
It would be great to have transit running down Delaware Ave. Even without the El, some form of light rail would be neat. I've often thought about what it would be like having some form of light rail transit run down Delaware from Penns Landing, maybe even to Pattison and the Stadiums. Would be neat.