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The 30th Street Station District Plan is a long-range, joint master planning effort led by Amtrak, Brandywine Realty Trust, Drexel University, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) to develop a comprehensive vision for the future of the 30th Street Station District in the year 2050 and beyond.
College Hall and Logan Hall on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, as viewed from Woodland Avenue c. 1892. Schematic map of subway–surface branches and termini. The subway–surface lines are remnants of the far more extensive streetcar system that developed in Philadelphia after the arrival of electric trolleys in 1892.
The streets of Philadelphia mainly follow a grid plan, one of the first such lay-outs used in a North American city. The grid plan originated in 1682, when William Penn founded Philadelphia and appointed Thomas Holme as his surveyor. Using 1,200 acres (4.9 km 2), [1] Penn planned a
PennDOT and City of Philadelphia: Length: 12.4 mi (20.0 km) [1] Component highways: PA 611 between I-95 and Old York Road: Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. South end: Admiral Peary Way in Navy Yard: Major junctions: I-95 at the Sports Complex I-76 in Packer Park PA 3 (John F. Kennedy Boulevard) at Philadelphia City Hall I-676 / US 30 ...
The renovated Dilworth Park opened on September 4, 2014. [10] In 2013, the passage of PA Act 89 (Transportation Funding Law) has allowed SEPTA to move forward with the $147 million BSL/MFL station renovation. [11] The reconstruction of 15th Street station began in 2016, and was completed in 2018. Reconstruction of City Hall station began in 2019.
PennDOT and City of Philadelphia: Length: 5.6 mi (9.0 km) [1] Component highways: SR 3008 from Front Street to City Hall PA 3 eastbound between 63rd and 33rd Streets in Philadelphia: Location: Center City, Pennsylvania, U.S. West end: PA 3 in Cobbs Creek: Major junctions: US 13 in University City I-76 in University City PA 611 (Broad Street) in ...
Erie station is the proposed junction between the Broad Street Line and the Roosevelt Boulevard Subway.. In a public meeting hosted by Pennsylvania Rep. Jared Solomon, representatives from PennDOT and the Philadelphia Office of Transportation and Infrastructure discussed the project, which has long been called for as a way to better connect Northeast Philadelphia to Center City and make one of ...
A 1911 map showing the proposed streetcar Routes 113 and 187, whose tracks would decades later be used by SEPTA's Route 34.. The Delaware County and Philadelphia Electric Railway Company installed transit tracks for horsecars running along Baltimore Avenue as early as 1890, but it was the arrival of the electrified trolley two years later that allowed the extension of the line westward to the ...