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Neenah Transit Center is one of the two transit centers of the Valley Transit system. This station is a relocation of the previous Church Street station, and was originally designed to be temporary, yet is still there multiple years later.  Services Four fixed bus routes depart from Neenah Transit Center, these are:  Valley Transit 30 - Neenah/Menasha: Appleton/Valley Transit Center to Neenah Transit Center via Menasha 31 - East Neenah: Neenah Transit Center to Doty Island and south end of Neenah 32 - West Neenah: Neenah Transit Center to west end of Neenah 41 - West Fox Valley: Neenah Transit Center to Fox Crossing Go Transit Go Connect: Would this count as microtransit? It uses a taxi between Neenah Transit Center and Oshkosh-Downtown Transit Center. You need to call Oshkosh City Cab the day before (before 4:30 PM) to ride this. This replaced the old Route 10 bus that went between the two transit centers. When I tried riding it, Oshkosh City Cab compl...

Martin State Airport is a station located at Eastern Avenue and White Marsh Boulevard in Middle River, Maryland, near the Martin State Airport, its namesake.  History This station was built in 1991 along with the rest of the extension from Baltimore Penn to Perryville. At some point between 2016 and 2019, the station was rebuilt with new platforms, shelters, and a repainted depot. Tour Martin State Airport is an interesting station to say the least. The quality of the station is incredibly exaggerated, and its less awful than one would expect. That isn't to say it's any good. In order to get to the actual platforms, you need to cross a ditch Closeup on the ditch I'm fairly certain this is a stormwater ditch of some form, since I could see no water in it when i visited The tracks The outbound "platform"  In order to bound an outbound train, you have to walk onto the Northeast Corridor. The wors...

Ardmore Junction is a station on SEPTA's M. The station is located on Hathaway Lane and Haverford Road in Ardmore. Or more specifically, the station is located where the M intersects with the Ardmore busway. This station serves both the M and the 103 bus.  History  Ardmore Junction was built in 1907 by the Philadelphia and Western Railroad, an interurban company that tried to make a line from Philadelphia to York but failed. This station was built at the junction of the P&W line and the Ardmore and Llanerch Street Railway. The A&L was later bought by Red Arrow, as was the P&W. Not super long afterwards in 1966, the Ardmore route was bustituted. The ardmore trolley almost wasn't bustituted, all that would have prevented that was if Red Arrow had two more trolleys to use. Red Arrow tried buying two more trolleys, but they had doors on the wrong side.  Much of the original route from Havertown to Ardmore was paved over and turned into a bu...