SEPTA Unveiling Its Recommendation For Project To Connect KOP To Norristown High Speed Line
By Jim Melwert
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (CBS) -- With public meetings scheduled to start next week, SEPTA is unveiling its recommendation for a Norristown High Speed Line extension to connect the rail system to King of Prussia.
The list of 30-alternatives, is now narrowed to one recommendation, says SEPTA's Liz Smith.
"Looking at a bunch of different factors, weighing the impacts and the benefits on both the residential areas as well as the business area and figuring out with alternative was the best fit."
She says their recommendation is called the PECO-Turnpike-First Avenue alternative. It would connect to the High Speed Line near the Hughes Park station, follows the PECO high tension wires to the Pennsylvania turnpike, then run along Mall Boulevard on the north side of the King of Prussia Mall, then crosses the turnpike to run along First Avenue into the area of the business park.
Smith notes this is just a proposed alternative at this point, and they hope to get input and feedback on the proposal at public meetings, the first from 4pm-8pm, Monday, March 7th at the Radisson Valley Forge on First Avenue in King of Prussia. The second meeting is Wednesday, March 9th at the Norristown Municipal Building. A third meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, March 15th at the the DoubleTree Hotel Valley Forge on Dekalb Pike in King of Prussia.
SEPTA hopes to have the King of Prussia extension running by 2023.
