Norristown Transportation Center Improvements

Service at the Norristown Transportation Center includes the Route 100 Norristown High Speed Line, eight Suburban Surface Transit routes and the Norristown (R6) Regional Rail. SEPTA is aggressively addressing the stressed parking situations at its busiest Regional Rail stations.  A brand new parking garage opened recently at Norristown Transportation Center.  The facility was designed to accommodate 522 additional vehicles at the Norristown Transportation Center complex, relieving the overcrowding parking lots that had been reaching capacity quickly during the morning rush hours.  The garage is the first to be operated by the SEPTA Regional Rail Division.   The new parking garage provides added parking relief for weekday customers who choose to be green and ride SEPTA. But SEPTA did not stop after building the new garage.  Team members from the Engineering Division saw this as an opportunity to also make improvements throughout the entire Norristown Transportation Center facility.  Five general issues were addressed when crews "blitzed" the facility: road and surface improvements; lighting; signage and travel information; street landscaping; and general trash removal around the Route 100, Surface Transit Bus Plaza and Regional Rail station.     Trash removal and additional landscaping helped spruce up the Surface Transit outdoor waiting area. We know customers taking SEPTA are already traveling green.  But in order to encourage staying green before and after you ride us, bicycle racks and shelters have been installed around the transit plaza outside the Route 100 station and along the inbound platform of the Norristown (R6) Regional Rail line.  This encourages local, near-by residents an alternative to driving to our station.  Increased station signage and travel information help guide customers on their travels.  Decorative planter boxes at the bus plaza and facility landscaping renewal greet customers with an environmentally pleasing surrounding as they wait.   Additional lighting and bicycle racks were part of the series of improvements SEPTA completed. Crews removed extraneous trash around the transportation center and installed more trashcans in key areas to keep encouraging customers to properly dispose of their trash before boarding one of our vehicles.  Graffiti was removed and dirt was power washed away before painters added a fresh coat to canopies, rusting fixtures, station waiting rooms and other building accoutrements.   The underground staircase connecting the inbound and outbound platforms of the Norristown (R6) Regional Rail was completely rebuilt. Brighter lighting glows along the platforms, stairwells, tunnels, surface parking lots and plaza areas.  Adjustments to timing controls give often shaded areas like tunnels and covered stairwells constant illumination from the new fluorescent lighting.   Another view of the new parking garage and the newly modernized escalator leading to the Route 100 platforms. SEPTA realizes the vital link Norristown Transportation Center is to our customers in Delaware County.  Expansion and continued maintenance of Norristown, as well as all of our stations, are ways SEPTA remains the environmentally friendly way to get our customers to their destinations.   SEPTA remains an environmentally friendly, cost-effective means of travel.