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SEPTA Mid-Winter Trip XX - COVID Edition |
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Posted by Jersey Mike on Thu Oct 22 13:18:07 2020 I'm not about to let a little pandemic break my XX year streak of hosting SEPA Mid-Winter Trips and I am sure that many of you will have surprisingly free holiday schedules either working from home or not seeing friends and family.While details are still being finalized it is quite obvious that a traditional MWT spent actually riding transit vehicles is not going to work. Even if riding transit is of only modest risk, the group would be spread out to the point that conversation and photos would be difficult. Therefore, MWT XX will consist of a special WALKING TOUR of rail sights in the Center and University City districts of Philadelphia. The general concept is to begin at the generally ghost town WEST concourse of the Market East station and then walk up to the abandoned Reading Viaduct, then along the route of the City Branch to the Art Museum circle. From there we would head along the old B&O route to JFK on the Schuylkill river path then up and over the JFK Boulevard bridge to 30th St for photos from the parking deck and lunch. After lunch the tour would continue with the southern approach to 30th St station, University City SEPTA station and ARSENAL interlocking before returning via the South St Bridge and the southern part of the River Walk that runs next to the CSX Philly sub. Distance will be about 6-7 miles over flat terrain. Date is likely Monday Dec 28th, although I might set the exact date closer to the event when the weather conditions are better known. I know I am likely to not get a lot of people out for this, but I think it's important to get out and do COVID safe activities such as a 6-7 mile urban hike xD I'll post a Favebook event in the near future. I'd expect that people will still need to use transit to get to Market East. I might delay the start time to completely avoid the peak periods such as they are. |
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