Philadelphia 2035 (Reading, Washington, Newtown: converting, where is, connection)

[Pine to Vine]

Rail park video:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc36Imh34Nw

I'm guessing most of you have seen Cory K Popp's other videos on YouTube. If not, they are worth checking out.

[cpomp]

The views from :31 to :40 I keep picturing Chelsea and the incredible amount of development still going on thanks to the High Line. Hope that's Philly soon

[MarketStEl]

Great Cory Popp video, but I'm still opposed to the cut and tunnel being incorporated into the park.

However, since SEPTA, which owns both, seems to have no idea yet what kind of transit it might want to put there....

[kyb01]

Originally Posted by Pine to Vine

Rail park video:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc36Imh34Nw

I'm guessing most of you have seen Cory K Popp's other videos on YouTube. If not, they are worth checking out.

Here's a factoid for the youngters on the thread: I frequently rode Reading RR trains, out of Reading Terminal, to Bucks Co, in the late '60s, on that very stretch of what will be the first part of the Rail Park.

[asiandudeyo]

It was great to see the cores for W hotel on Chestnut coming up at the street level.
I was excited when I saw them today.

[MarketStEl]

Originally Posted by kyb01

Here's a factoid for the youngters on the thread: I frequently rode Reading RR trains, out of Reading Terminal, to Bucks Co, in the late '60s, on that very stretch of what will be the first part of the Rail Park.

Unless I'm mistaken, Phase One of the Rail Park won't extend onto the main Reading Viaduct itself.

The segment under construction now is the single-track spur that curves off the viaduct's westernmost track headed north, then west, and reaches the surface at Noble Street and 13th, the latter of which dips below the spur.

It's my understanding that the Reading Company still owns the rump viaduct and is unwilling to sell it now after trying to give it away some years back because it smells redevelopment money in the revival of the Callowhill Loft District.

[kyb01]

Originally Posted by cpomp

The views from :31 to :40 I keep picturing Chelsea and the incredible amount of development still going on thanks to the High Line. Hope that's Philly soon

It will probably take close to a decade to get that kind of, all encompassing, development near the Philly rail park. BUT I can't wait for the first part to get done.

[kyb01]

Originally Posted by MarketStEl

Unless I'm mistaken, Phase One of the Rail Park won't extend onto the main Reading Viaduct itself.

The segment under construction now is the single-track spur that curves off the viaduct's westernmost track headed north, then west, and reaches the surface at Noble Street and 13th, the latter of which dips below the spur.

It's my understanding that the Reading Company still owns the rump viaduct and is unwilling to sell it now after trying to give it away some years back because it smells redevelopment money in the revival of the Callowhill Loft District.

Yes, I think you are correct. And, what's left of the Reading Company is doing a Rappaport. But the fact remains I rode on those trains long ago( probably only southbound 295 may have too) never thinking that the rail track areas could be transformed.

[kyb01]

Originally Posted by asiandudeyo

It was great to see the cores for W hotel on Chestnut coming up at the street level.
I was excited when I saw them today.

Same here! Finally. But it will probably take a couple of years more to complete it.

[Pine to Vine]

Originally Posted by MarketStEl

Great Cory Popp video, but I'm still opposed to the cut and tunnel being incorporated into the park.

Not really familiar with those stretches. What do you think would be a better use for each?