PHILADELPHIA — Renovations underway at Philadelphia’s 30th Street Station will restore a direct pedestrian tunnel connection to the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority’s Market-Frankfort Line, eliminated in 1984, the website Billy Penn reports.
Currently, the connection requires going above ground and following a route without signage that crosses a street that is an exit route off Interstate 76. A tunnel connected the transit line and a concourse adjacent to 30th Street Station beginning in 1934, but was eventually closed because of concerns about storm leakage, lighting, and fire hazards.
But the renovation and redevelopment in progress by developer Plenary Infrastructure Philadelphia [see “Amtrak, developer reach agreement …,” Trains News Wire, Sept. 15, 2021] includes a new concourse that will, along with other amenities, include a stairwell leading to a tunnel to the Market-Frankfort Line’s 30th Street platform.
An Amtrak representative told the website that it is unclear when work on that connection will begin, so there’s no timeline for its completion.
More on the 30th Street Station project is available at this website.
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