Description
Long planned, federal Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) funds enabled the development of the South Broad Street subway from its then-southern terminus at Lombard South Station to Snyder Ave., during the mid-to-late 1930s. Service along this stretch of subway was inaugurated at the three new subway stations: Ellsworth–Federal, Tasker–Morris, and Snyder, on Sept. 18, 1938.
The Broad Street line was extended further south, decades later, to Pattison Ave.
Source notes
"The Private City: Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth," by Sam Bass Warner (pg. 193)
https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/SEPTA_Broad_Street_Subway
Project originally submitted by Evan Kalish on December 25, 2017.
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