Comments on: Subway lines proposed along the Boulevard

By: Ian Litwin

Ian Litwin — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:06:35 +0000

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By: gerard c beaucheane sr

gerard c beaucheane sr — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:55:22 +0000

These plans have been mentioned since I was born (1950) There’s even a map in Engine 71′s firehouse (Cottman & Loretto) showing the NE expressway running on Pennway & Whittaker Sts! It was a proposal way back then. More smoke & mirrors to make the NE residents think they’ll get more than ‘lip-service’ from City Hall

By: Mo

Mo — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 06:46:54 +0000

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.

By: Dee

Dee — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 04:53:56 +0000

You are correct, it was going to be 500 feet from my house, (wasn’t born yet) It was called the “Pennway Corridor” If you google it, something will come up.

By: Ian Romano

Ian Romano — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 04:06:46 +0000

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.

By: Randall Murray II

Randall Murray II — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 02:37:39 +0000

@Alan…..there is actually an underground station where the old Sears was……there are also underground tracks up the Blvd to Rising Sun Avenue……never used….it was suppose to be a spur off of the Broad St. Subway

By: Alan Goldberg

Alan Goldberg — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 23:29:50 +0000

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