From: dsbarr@mindspring.com   
      
   In recent years (after giving up on the   
   Greyhound/Peter Pan buses first during   
   Covid and then when they closed the 10th   
   Street bus station) I've moved to the   
   NJT NYC>Trenton/SEPTA Trenton>Philly   
   route rather than the more expensive   
   (and more distant from my Philly   
   destinations) Amtrak I had used in the   
   previous century before switching to the   
   cheaper and closer bus.  I haven't noticed   
   them coordinating schedules; in fact   
   connections seem to be either very tight   
   (and easily missed if the first train is   
   late, especially as one has to run up the   
   stairs from one track and over and down   
   to another at the opposite end of the   
   station) or rather gapped, although that   
   does depend on when one is traveling and   
   the frequency of each train.  If this   
   route goes (or even if just the particular   
   runs I need to use to make my hospital   
   appointments are cut) it's back to the   
   drawing board (or Amtrak).   
      
      
   On 9/1/2025 8:35 AM, danny burstein wrote:   
   > In <109436u$sm$1@gal.iecc.com> John Levine  writes:   
   >   
   >> The planned cuts are hard to believe.  They plan to stop all SEPTA service   
   on the NEC between   
   >> Trenton and Philadelphia.  I suppose that if you want to get to Phila and   
   find Amtrak too   
   >> expensive you could take NJT to Trenton, then the River Line to either the   
   Atlantic City   
   >> line or PATCO, but sheesh.   
   >   
   > In ye oldyn daize I peridically took the NY Penn NJ Transit <-> Trenton <->   
   SEPTA <-> Philly   
   > run a bunch of times.  And they actually coordinated the schedules...   
   >   
   > (And no, I wasn't using that stash of expired 1960's drugs.  They actually   
   > tried to keep passengers in mind...)   
      
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