Unfamiliar_Word t1_j4nyqbx wrote on January 17, 2023 at 1:26 AM

I continue to be impressed by Jay Arzu's success in promoting the Roosevelt Boulevard Subway. I remain pessimistic about its prospects, because I am me and this is Philadelphia, but he has taken it from opinion columns to something with a little actual enthusiasm and political support in less than a year. That's a considerable accomplishment.

I'm a little skeptical of the wisdom of making the Market-Frankford Subway-Elevated connection essential to the plan, because it will entail a considerable added cost. Admittedly, I might be biased by my own silly fantasy of a branch from the MFSE along Oxford and Castor Avenues, replacing the route #59 trackless trolley, to a point in Rhawnhurst.

_crapitalism t1_j4o89n9 wrote on January 17, 2023 at 2:32 AM

the problem is if you say "oh, the connection comes later when we get additional funding," then that connection will quite possibly wait yet another 100 years.