Pennsylvania

Philadelphia’s SEPTA has the best regional rail infrastructure in the country, with 280 miles of electrified line feeding through a quadruple-track downtown tunnel. While it is essential to serve suburban Center City commutes, though, the service on that network doesn’t meet many other needs: shorter trips within the city, reverse commutes, and non-work trips. As part of its strategic goal of creating a “lifestyle” network, the agency asked Huitt-Zollars to lead a “Reimagining Regional Rail” effort to make the network more useful to more people.