| Image courtesy of the Reading Company Technical and Historical SocietyĪt the time both stations were closed, the former Reading Railroad line was a stub end extending no further than Reading Terminal on Market Street. Tioga Station looking south toward Center City. Girard Avenue Station was shuttered by the former Reading Railroad in 1949. Tioga Station was closed by SEPTA after it assumed regional rail system operations from Conrail in 1983. These articles addressed the former Tioga Station and the former Girard Avenue Station. Two of these articles, both written by me, focused on reviving abandoned rail stations that once served commuters along the 9th Street Branch elevated line running south from Wayne Junction to Jefferson Station and beyond. SEPTA’s chief executive, Leslie Richards, stated in January that the project would cost at least $3 billion and that there is no way that the agency could secure funding.įrom time to time Hidden City Philadelphia has reported on the regional transportation system and has occasionally suggested improvements.
PennDOT announced plans to study the proposed subway line in November 2022 as part of the City’s Routes for Change program. The Roosevelt Boulevard Subway, first proposed in 1913, has been studied a few times in the past, but so far has received little contemporary planning research, indicating that completion would be far into the future where the cost risk is greatest. Planning costs alone for the KOP project have already set SEPTA back $53 million that it will never recoup. This alternative would yield a much higher level of passengers served, but it shares with the KOP project the risk of budget overruns that could potentially crush SEPTA. With SEPTA’s recent decision to pause its King of Prussia (KOP) rail line project, speculation on what should replace it has predictably focused on building the long-discussed Roosevelt Boulevard Subway, our region’s other big transit proposal. The 285-unit residential complex is a five minute walk to the former Girard Avenue rail station.
The old Strawbridge & Clothier warehouse at 9th and Poplar Streets was recently converted into apartments by real estate development firm Post Brothers.
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