Re: bryn mawr college update (yapc2004)

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 09:05:20AM -0400, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> A reasonable upper limit would be $1.90 per person one way, as that is
> the cost of the route 100 (a token: $1.30) from Bryn Mawr plus
> transfer ($.60) to MFSE. Travel time is 10 minutes to 69th, then 20
> minutes to Center City, service no worse than every 20 minutes except
> late evening. (SEPTA may have deals for groups, in addition.)

I'll add two points to that:

1. It's a pretty long walk (20-30 minutes) to the Route 100 station
   from Bryn Mawr's campus, and you've got to walk through the R5
   station to get there.

2. I saw a report over the weekend that Septa's planning on replacing
   the elevated tracks from 40th to 69th St. starting next summer.
   That would mean shuttle buses and most likely longer travel times.

But of course the R5 is nearly double the price -- $3.75 one-way
instead of $1.90.  Perhaps they have deals on group train tickets?

Walt

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