$2B Regional Rail car replacement moving forward, but new trains will take years

SEPTA is moving forward with a $2 billion effort to replace its oldest Regional Rail cars, even though the transit agency has yet to secure all the money needed for the project and riders could wait about seven years for the new trains. Pennsylvania this week approved an updated long-term transportation plan that includes the $2 billion project to replace all 218 of SEPTA’s Silverliner IV rail cars. The trains are more than 50 years old, with the oldest built during the Nixon adminis...