(The following story by Peter Mucha appeared on the Philadelphia Inquirer website on June 12.)
PHILADELPHIA — SEPTA’s regional rail lines are running mostly on time again, after a morning full of delays on many routes throughout the region.
A few trains ran about an hour late, and at least a dozen others had delays of a half-hour or more.
As of 9 a.m., for example, a train from Neshaminy Falls to 30th Street was running 47 minutes late, a Doylestown train to Trenton was 34 minutes late, and a train from Fox Chase to Chestnut Hill West was 31 minutes behind schedule.
Of 43 routes listed then, only about half were reportedly on-time or delayed five minutes or less.
Which routes were furthest behind kept changing.
At 8:10 a.m, a West Trenton train to 30th Street was 59 minutes behind. At 7 a.m., the longest delay – 61 minutes – was for a train from Fox Chase to Chestnut Hill.
By 9 a.m, the same route was virtually on time.
Trains from Lansdale, Warminster, Neshaminy Falls and the airport have also had delays of more than 30 minutes.
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