Description
In conjunction with what was known as the Ridge Avenue Connector, “the high speed electric rail transit line which connects the Ridge Avenue—Eighth Street—Locust Street Subway in Philadelphia with a terminal near the Broadway Station of the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines in Camden, is the largest of the completed Public Works Administration projects in Pennsylvania,” as of 1937. Work involved development of a rail line across what is now the Ben Franklin Bridge.
Source notes
The Indiana Gazette from Indiana, Pennsylvania, Apr. 1, 1937 (pg. 20)
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/10028437/ (accessed Dec. 25, 2017)
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on September 16, 2015.
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