PHILADELPHIA — The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority has readjusted commuter rail operations following Friday’s reopening of Interstate following a June 11 bridge collapse.
SEPTA will continue to offer two additional morning trains and one additional evening train on its Trenton Line, while maintaining additional seating capacity on that line, as well as the West Trenton and Fox Chase lines.
Also, the Cynwyd Regional Rail Line, which had been replaced with bus service to free up equipment and staff for other lines, has been restored as of today (Monday, June 26).
Original estimates called for a section of I-95 to be closed for months after the bridge collapsed as a result of a fire involving a gasoline tank truck [see “SEPTA moves to increase rail service …,” Trains News Wire, June 11, 2023]. But a temporary repair, in which a three-lane roadway was built atop a wall of foam glass, was completed in just 12 days, the website Billy Penn reports. Work will now begin on a permanent, full-width overpass to replace the collapsed bridge; that project will take several months.
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