In 1983 the R3 Line (Media/Elwyn) was closed for a year for needed repair on the Crum Creek Trestle. I was too you young to care about that back then, but with a lack of budget funding, we may have an issue on our hands, as reported by the delcotimes.com. The future of the R3 Line and 101 Trolley (runs through Media) could be in jeopardy due to needed repairs that if not done, could shut down the line. Read about it in this week's delcotimes article.
WAY major issue if it happens. I'm hopeful that Harrisburg will get their act together and work on a clean transportation bill. The connection of transportation to liquor privatization was foolish by the legislature and put a lot of our roads and public transportation in a horrible spot.
ReplyDeleteNature of the beast MM. Politics, living together in a civilized society, is all about compromise. No issue stands alone.
ReplyDeleteThat is true during most times Anon 7:43, but transportation funding used to be a sacred bipartisan cow especially when it came to the Republican and Democratic machines of Philadelphia and the Burbs would band together. In either case a clean $2.5 billion transportation bill could easily pass the Senate and the House could pull it off with a mixture of Philly burb Republicans and the full Democratic Caucus. It just can't be tied to things (i.e. liquor privatization) that the Democratic votes won't ever go towards.
DeleteWow. You're right. Now that the Philly burbs are changing, we see fewer opportunities for wielding that mutual influence on the rest of the State.
DeleteBy changing you mean becoming more D? Are you saying yhe D moving majority in this region cannot achieve a compromise with the R majority in the rest of the state?
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone other than Mickey honestly believe the State is going to build us a new dam? With the rest of the state gasping for infrastructure funding, that proposition seems ridiculous at this point....
ReplyDeleteI don't know how they could sell it to the rest of the State, let alone afford it.
DeleteInteresting that MM is the first to point out that it's almost impossible to pass meaningful legislation that benefits this region without a strong Republican presence in the suburban counties. A pity, really. Says something.
ReplyDeleteWhat it says to me is that smart Republicans understand there are some issues that are bipartisan in nature and benefit everybody. A fully functional transportation system (both public transportation and roads) is an essential for a vibrant economy. It isn't just members of any one party using I-95, 476, I-76, R3, R5, 101 line, etc.
DeleteSmart Republicans like Bill Adolf, Nick Micozzie, etc. all get this. Sadly too many Tea Party members of the PA Republican Caucus don't understand the basic role government spending on transportation plays in helping drive an economy.
The really sad thing was the PA House Republican Leadership has such little control of its own caucus that they needed to beg for Democratic votes to pass a transportation bill that passed the Senate with only 2 or 3 no votes.
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