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Yahoo
04-04-2025
- Yahoo
PATCO's modernized Franklin Square Station reopens
The Brief After delaying the opening nearly a year, PATCO's Franklin Square Station has finally opened. For more than four decades, PATCO trains rolled right through after passenger service was stopped in 1979, but no more. CENTER CITY - The waiting is over – a modernized PATCO Franklin Square Station is now open again. What we know It happened with great fanfare – a band, a choir, elected officials and members of the upper ranks of the agencies that run the public transportation system. Chairperson for DRPA, Jim Schultz stated, "This building is the centerpiece for Center City to connect with Old City, Chinatown Northern Liberties and connect New Jersey to this part of the city. It's a great connection line and a huge asset for the city." After a multi-year $30 million renovation project financed with local, state and federal transportation funds, Franklin Square is now the first stop when trains cross the Delaware from Camden. What they're saying Camden Mayor, Vic Carstarphen said, "If you're traveling to and from work and other attractions and connecting throughout the region, PATCO is a vital link between Camden and Philadelphia and I'm glad to see Franklin Square with much-needed TLC." "The revitalization of Franklin Square Station, what it does is reinforce for our commuters to envision these two great cities remain connected and they will be ready for the future," Mayor Cherelle Parker explained. What's next Officials say the station will be a welcome addition now and in 2026, when the city hosts the World Cup and other major events. They say it's also a modern and convenient daily commuter transportation hub – a model for other, aging stations and public transportation infrastructure. "It's truly a game-changer as residents have another stop on the high-speed line to and from jobs and many destinations and opportunities on both sides of the Delaware River," Terry Garcia Cruz, with the Federal Transit Administration, said. Mayor Parker says she will visit the station in the coming weeks to meet and greet commuters and visitors to showcase the renovated station and park.
CBS News
03-04-2025
- CBS News
PATCO reopening Franklin Square Philadelphia station after 46 years out of service
A long-dormant train station in Philadelphia is reopening Thursday after a $29 million renovation. PATCO's Franklin Square station will reopen on Thursday, April 3, after a ribbon-cutting ceremony set for 12 p.m. You can watch that ceremony live on our YouTube channel , and follow along for live coverage in this article as well. Franklin Square station at 7th and Race streets initially opened in the 1930s but closed in 1939, with brief reopening stints in the 1950s and again in 1976 for the nation's bicentennial . It later closed in 1979. Videos from the past several years show the PATCO trains still passing by the shuttered station. The modern renovations added ADA-compliant features to the station, including elevators and ramps, and there's also an escalator to take you down to the platform. Franklin Square will be the new first stop in Philadelphia for travelers coming across the Delaware River from Camden, New Jersey. Before that, riders had to get off at 8th and Market streets.
CBS News
28-03-2025
- Politics
- CBS News
UAW's Shawn Fain slams Trump executive order targeting federal unions
Shawn Fain, the president of the United Automobile Workers, assailed a new executive order signed this week by President Trump as an attack on federal workers. He compared it to the 1981 air traffic controller strike, when President Ronald Reagan fired 11,000 air traffic controllers. "This is 100 times worse than PATCO ever dreamed of being," Fain said, referring to the Port Authority Corporation, "when you're talking, you know — 700,000 people — their contracts just being taken away." "Free speech is under attack. Unions are under attack," Fain told CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett in an interview airing Sunday on " Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan ." On Thursday, the president signed an executive order to stop or slow down collective bargaining with agencies that have national security responsibilities, claiming that unions have stood in the way of their management. It affects a broad swath of agencies across the federal government, including some that do not have direct national security duties. The departments of defense, homeland security, state, energy, treasury and health and human services are listed in the order. Fain blamed the "billionaires," who he said "want more tax cuts for themselves." "It's been proven time and again that's not what works for America," he continued. "That's not good for the American people, the working class people in America." "They want their fair share. They're not asking to be rich," Fain told Garrett. "They just want a decent standard of living," which he distilled into four issues, "living wages, adequate health care, retirement security and having some quality of life other than just everything revolving around work."
