Monday, May 09, 2005
Let it go already!
I read this a few days ago and instead of letting it slide into oblivion, it has festered into its own special little cyst. Now that SEPTA managed to get a little extra funding to keep the sinking ship afloat, they are going to start
SEPTA to resume rebuilding of Market-Frankford Elevated Train run. Only $74 million dollars of taxpayer money that they hope to extort from the State coffers. Oh, and the disruption will be unbearable for those who can still afford to pay the raised rates on that particular line.
SEPTA to resume rebuilding of Market-Frankford Elevated Train run. Only $74 million dollars of taxpayer money that they hope to extort from the State coffers. Oh, and the disruption will be unbearable for those who can still afford to pay the raised rates on that particular line.
- Next month, SEPTA will hire a replacement contractor to finish work on the western end of the $567 million project to rebuild the century-old elevated train line, SEPTA general manager Faye Moore said yesterday.
SEPTA remains locked in a lawsuit brought by PKF Mark III of Newtown, contractor for the Cobbs Creek project terminated by the transit agency last December.
Still unknown, Moore said, is whether the bonding company that insured the project will pick up SEPTA's costs for delays and unfinished work. Moore declined to put a value on those costs yesterday.
PKF Mark III contends that the transit agency persistently interfered with construction. SEPTA has countered that it sought to remedy serious safety concerns.
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Meanwhile, Moore announced plans to close Market Street and detour up to 150,000 El riders onto buses for parts of the spring and summer.
Beginning May 31, SEPTA will close the 56th Street station until late November. Shuttle buses will transport riders from Upper Darby's 69th Street Terminal to the 40th Street station when the El shuts down on weekends in June.
- The shutdown will bring giant cranes and a hive of workers who will rebuild stations, cut down and remove the old El, and erect a sleek, single-column structure in its place.
"It will be noise, lights and dirt, 24 [hours a day] seven [days a week]," Moore said. "This is one of the largest construction projects in SEPTA's history."
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