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Center City Commuter Connection

Index Center City Commuter Connection

The ASCE plaque in Jefferson Station City plaque in Jefferson Station The Center City Commuter Connection, commonly referred to as "the commuter tunnel", is a passenger railroad tunnel in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, built to connect the stub ends of the two separate regional commuter rail systems, originally operated by two rival railroad companies: the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Reading Company. [1]

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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Broad Street Line

The Broad Street Line (BSL)—also known as the Broad Street Subway (BSS), Orange Line, or Broad Line—is a subway line owned by the city of Philadelphia and operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA).

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Center City, Philadelphia

Center City includes the central business district and central neighborhoods of Philadelphia, in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.

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Commuter rail

Commuter rail, also called suburban rail, is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates between a city centre and middle to outer suburbs beyond 15 km (10 miles) and commuter towns or other locations that draw large numbers of commuters—people who travel on a daily basis.

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Crossrail

Crossrail is a railway line under development in London and the home counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Essex, England.

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Cynwyd Line

The Cynwyd Line is a SEPTA Regional Rail line running from Center City Philadelphia to Cynwyd in Montgomery County.

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East Side Access

East Side Access is a public works project under construction by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) in New York City.

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Edmund Bacon (architect)

Edmund Norwood Bacon (May 2, 1910October 14, 2005) was an American urban planner, architect, educator, and author.

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Jefferson Station (SEPTA)

Jefferson Station (formerly named and still frequently referred to as Market East Station) is an underground SEPTA Regional Rail station located on Market Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.

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North–South Rail Link

The North–South Rail Link is a proposed pair of rail tunnels, each about long, that would connect North and South Stations in downtown Boston, Massachusetts.

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Oslo

Oslo (rarely) is the capital and most populous city of Norway.

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Oslo Tunnel

The Oslo Tunnel (Oslotunnelen) is a, double-track, railway tunnel which runs between Olav Kyrres plass and Oslo Central Station (Oslo S) in Oslo, Norway.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Penn Station Access

Penn Station Access is a public works project planned by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority in New York City.

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Pennsylvania Railroad

The Pennsylvania Railroad (or Pennsylvania Railroad Company and also known as the "Pennsy") was an American Class I railroad that was established in 1846 and was headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Philadelphia

Philadelphia is the largest city in the U.S. state and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and the sixth-most populous U.S. city, with a 2017 census-estimated population of 1,580,863.

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Philadelphia City Hall

Philadelphia City Hall is the seat of government for the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Picc-Vic tunnel

Picc-Vic was a proposed, and later cancelled, underground railway designed in the early 1970s with the purpose of connecting two major mainline railway termini in Manchester city centre, England.

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Réseau Express Régional

The Réseau Express Régional (Regional Express Network), commonly abbreviated RER, is a hybrid suburban commuter/rapid transit system serving Paris, France and its suburbs.

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Reading Company

The Reading Company was a company that was involved in the railroad industry in southeast Pennsylvania and neighboring states from 1924 until 1976.

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Reading Terminal

The Reading Terminal is a complex of buildings that includes the former Reading Company main station located in the Market East section of Center City in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Reading Viaduct

The Reading Viaduct Park (commonly called Reading Viaduct) is a rail park that is considered to be "Philadelphia's High Line".

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SEPTA

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) is a regional public transportation authority that operates bus, subway / elevated rail line, commuter and light rail line, and electric trolleybus services to nearly 4 million people in five counties in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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SEPTA Regional Rail

The SEPTA Regional Rail system is a commuter rail network serving the Philadelphia Metropolitan area.

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Suburban Station

Suburban Station is an art deco office building and underground commuter rail station in Penn Center, Philadelphia.

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Tunnel

A tunnel is an underground passageway, dug through the surrounding soil/earth/rock and enclosed except for entrance and exit, commonly at each end.

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University of Pennsylvania

The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn or UPenn) is a private Ivy League research university located in University City section of West Philadelphia.

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Walnut–Locust station

Walnut–Locust/Avenue of the Arts (also Walnut–Locust) is a subway station on SEPTA's Broad Street Line in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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30th Street Station

30th Street Station is the main railroad station of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and one of the seven stations in the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority's (SEPTA) Center City fare zone.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_City_Commuter_Connection

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