Asphalt Review #24: Angora (SEPTA)

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Angora is the best station on the entire SEPTA Regional Rail network, if not in the entire northeastern US! I think the only station better than it is Hastings, on the MBTA! 

The station is located in the Angora neighborhood of Southwest Philadelphia, where the Media - Wawa line hits 58th street. Clearly, this is the best place to put a train station ever! 

By the way, if you're wondering how this station could be so good that I'm saying it could possibly dethrone Hastings and Eddington in the contest of best designed stations in the northeastern US, just keep reading and you're going to find out what's there! 

The Best Station Tour You Will Ever See

NOTHING! 

Clearly, this station has the most amenities of any station I've ever seen! So many amenities! You get an inaccessible platform, some stairs, a map, a trashbin, and nothing else! There are so many amenities that it makes a beautiful station like 30th St Station look like it has none at all!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

Stair reveal

I think a really cool touch was including a flowerbed filled with Henbit Deadnettles, a species of plant that's invasive to the US

Another really cool touch was putting it next to this one heavily decaying building!!!!!!!

Station from above

Bridge

Awww!!!!!!!!!!!!

My failure to take a photo of a train

Me and my friend looking at the hastily pasted schedule

Map and sign

This one has weird lighting

Speaking of lighting

I have a feeling that wasn't there until August 2022 at all, rather than updated to show Wawa

LOOK!!!! A TRANSIT ACCESSIBLE PILE OF ROCKS!!!!! WOAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think it's a really good station, just slightly too minimalist...

Accessibility

Platform height

Normally, I would talk about how much you would need to rebuild badly built stations to make them accessible. In this case, I think you need to build the station first. 

At least I didn't nearly die trying to get to and from it, unlike multiple other stations...

History

Ewwwww!!!!!! Usable building and shelter!!!!

There used to be a building here! I don't know where it went, though, but it's gone now!!! Nobody decided to replace it, and for the better! We don't need usable stations that have shelters or anything like that! Those are for losers that can't take getting drenched in the rain or getting covered in snow when it rains or snows! 

Transit Connections
Route 34 sign at 61st - Baltimore Loop

A station actually has multiple connections for once

• Route G - Pier 70 and Columbus Commons to Lankeneau Hospital and Overbrook via Southwest Philadelphia

• Route 34 - Trolley between 61st - Baltimore and 13th St Station, paralells Media - Wawa Line at Angora, and goes to the same place for most people, and is cheaper

• Route 46 - 58th - Baltimore to 63rd - Malvern Loop via 60th street

Route 34 Trolley

Things to Do in Angora

Some houses

There's not much to see in Angora, besides the 34 trolley, the library that's named after the neighborhood just north of it, and a few parks.

Amenity Checklist

Accessible: ×
Bathrooms: ×
Clean Station: ×
Connections to other transit routes: ✓
Convenience Store/similar place inside: ×
Easy passage for each side: ×
Indoor Shelters: ×
Maps: ×
Multiple entrances/exits: ×
Seating: ×
Shelters: ×
Station In Good Condition: × (Ground is even cracked!)
Ticket Kiosks (if applicable): ×
Ticket Offices: ×
TOD: ×
Train Departure/Arrival Info (signs that update/screens): ×
Updated Signage: ✓ 

Final Verdict: 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000.732 / 10!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

THIS IS THE BEST STATION I HAVE EVER SEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS STATION WHATSOEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All jokes aside, I still wonder how Link Belt gets less ridership than this, or why SEPTA isn't considering shutting down this station, or, you know, building anything here whatsoever? Genius idea, huh? 

Station Directory

--------Philadelphia County--------
''''''''Center City Zone''''''''
Jefferson (Market East)
Suburban
30th Street
Penn Medicine
''''''''Zone 1''''''''
49th Street
Angora
--------Delaware County--------
''''''''Zone 2''''''''
Fernwood - Yeadon
Lansdowne
Gladstone
Clifton - Aldan
Primos 
Secane
Morton
''''''''Zone 3''''''''
Swarthmore
Wallingford
Moylan - Rose Valley
Media
Elwyn
Wawa

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