I now ride the bus then train to the city, Philadelphia, where I work, from the semi-rural place I live, Spring Garden Inn in Waterford Works. This blog is about the people who ride the bus and train with me, a good lot of hard-working South JerseyansThey have taught me a lot with their stories which I plan to retell on this blog. These posts will remain anonymous for my fellow riders
Thursday, April 18, 2013
PATCO train AKA High Speed Line ...
...returns to New Jersey over Ben Franklin Bridge in this great picture, coming down in Camden near Rutgers campus:
Starting this blog again
I had started this blog about my hour plus commute to Center City Philadelphia from my home in the country (exurbia?) a few years ago, under a somewhat different theme. I have decided to start over, keeping only the focus on the low carbon footprint of my commute and adding stories of my fellow riders deliberately kept anonymous.
So, about maybe 5 years ago, I an not sure without checkng records my cool 1984 Porsche 944 (poor man's Porsche I joke, I bought it used on eBay for 3K and probably put as much $$ in it to get it on the road) ran into a deer on my way to the Atco Rail Station quite early in the morning. I used to commute from there to 30th Station in Philly since my company's office was a 20 minute walk from that station to Rittenhouse Square. My company has since moved down near City Hall and we were left with only one car, so I decided to start taking the bus, from a stop on the White Horse Pikd just across a 50 acre field that was once a peach orchard and now sports young blueberry bushes from my house, accessed by a side road. Our house is an historic landmark that is on Old White Horse Pike and once served as an Inn/Tavern for stagecoaches stopping overnight on the way to Cape May from Philadelphia in the mid-1800s. See the site for our great house here and here is a picture:
So, about maybe 5 years ago, I an not sure without checkng records my cool 1984 Porsche 944 (poor man's Porsche I joke, I bought it used on eBay for 3K and probably put as much $$ in it to get it on the road) ran into a deer on my way to the Atco Rail Station quite early in the morning. I used to commute from there to 30th Station in Philly since my company's office was a 20 minute walk from that station to Rittenhouse Square. My company has since moved down near City Hall and we were left with only one car, so I decided to start taking the bus, from a stop on the White Horse Pikd just across a 50 acre field that was once a peach orchard and now sports young blueberry bushes from my house, accessed by a side road. Our house is an historic landmark that is on Old White Horse Pike and once served as an Inn/Tavern for stagecoaches stopping overnight on the way to Cape May from Philadelphia in the mid-1800s. See the site for our great house here and here is a picture:
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