Secane Gets Modern Train Station Promoting Advantages of Public Transit Investment

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Image via Jason Laughlin/Staff Photographer, Philadelphia Inquirer.

From 1871 to today, the Secane train station has been a squat stone structure, that’s become more and more crowded out by the expanding road system that surrounds it, writes Jason Laughlin for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

On Thursday, Sept. 5, SEPTA unveiled a new station that is better adapted to its modern surroundings.

The new station has long ramps for people with wheelchairs. There are long, high platforms designed to speed boarding, reducing traffic delays at Providence Road, Bishop and South Avenues.

“Everyone knew the impact of this train station here when the gate would come down,” Upper Darby Mayor Thomas Micozzie said after the ribbon-cutting event.

The old station required gates at Providence and Bishop, officials said. Now traffic will have to wait only on Providence. The entrance to the new station is down the block, meaning fewer pedestrians will cross at the busy intersection.

Image via Jason Laughlin/Staff Photographer, Philadelphia Inquirer. Upper Darby Mayor Thomas Micozzie speaks at the ribbon cutting for the new Secane Station on Providence Road.

The new station serves as a backdrop for SEPTA’s message that investments “pay dividends for years and years to come,” said Chairman Pasquale E. “Pat” Deon.

That message is critical as the transit authority fights to keep state funding, even as funding for public transit drops.

Read more about the new Secane train station here.

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