Penn Station reopened yesterday! Thank freaking goodness. The opening was delayed, which all things considered, was not unexpected or too terrible of an inconvenience (it is construction after all). However, it seems to have (knocking on wood here), reset the bus schedules and brought things back on track.
I say this after one day of having the right bus at the right time. Which, should not be something to celebrate…but, well, you know…
Since July, my bus has rarely showed up on time (normally one of the three I can catch home doesn’t show up, causing a snowball affect), or so terribly overcrowded that I physically don’t have room to stand. And again, I have to praise the two hardest working people at PAT that I know of, the two who run @pghtransit, they have helped me out so many times I really should buy them a coffee or something at the very least (I hope their bosses appreciate them…hint hint).
A couple things to praise PAT though, the station looks awesome. There wasn’t really anything done that I could tell to the two long sidewalks, except new handicap access with the bumpy strips, but the road itself looks pretty awesome. Over next to the post office/federal court building, the sidewalk was completely redone and looks nice, although I haven’t walked on it yet.
One really nice thing was that there was a crossing guard yesterday. The pedestrians have this “free for all” mentality at Penn Station, so whoever had that guard there to help direct traffic, I can’t promise that those behaviors will stick, but it was nice.
Once again, I’m thrilled that things are going back to normal, we’ll see how the rest of the week pans out. We shouldn’t have had to wait four months for a fix, but I’ll chalk it up to a win nonetheless.
