There was a plan over 50 years ago to have a station where Sears was on the Blvd. What happened to that?

Hi Alan,

You must be refering to the commission’s 1964 plan to extend the Broad Line to near Pennway Street.

Although blueprints were already drawn out in detail, Penndot officially ended the project in 1977 because of high costs and public concern about the impact on the community, according to a document written to the planning commission and SEPTA from a construction engineering company.

You can find the document at this html:
http://felttip.com/svmetro//projects/roosevelt-study/draft-final-report.pdf

Unfortunately, the plan for 2035 is just a proposal and has yet to be decided on.

This plan surfaces and submerges more than the Market/Frankford line.
d ad nauseum City Planning in the 90′s…including coming all the way up past the NE Airport and having a connector to the Market/Frankford line. The costs are insane no matter what plan you land on and the rationale is weak. Among the City’s biggest arguments was an projection of massive increases in density in the NE…unlikely at best and certainly not seen so far.

It would also be so massively disruptive and for so long, that many of us would MOVE to get away from it!

for the far NE part, they intended stops at places like Welsh, Grant, Red Lion…but they would wind up sucking up big hunks of the shopping centers they want to support — and they probably would go out of business while they were being built! It was a waste of time and money and gray cells even discussing it.

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