PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 For years, signs inside 30th Street Station have directed travelers to a street that doesn\u2019t exist outside. <\/p>\n
Inside the station, signs above the doors on the east side of the building say 29th Street \u2014 but it\u2019s not 29th Street outside. It\u2019s Schuylkill Avenue, and has been for nearly 70 years. <\/p>\n
\u201cInside the station, it says 29th Street, and I actually had to come out of the building to figure out that that\u2019s not what it says outside,\u201d said confounded traveler Emily Finch, of Baltimore.<\/p>\n
According to Amtrak, when 30th Street Station opened in 1933, the east side of the building was occupied by railroad infrastructure and rail yards, not the Schuylkill Avenue that we know today.<\/p>\n
That side became known as the 29th Street side, presumably to simplify that it was east of the 30th Street side. For years, \u201c29th Street\u201d has remained part of the station\u2019s wayfinding. <\/p>\n
Finch\u2019s navigation on her phone told her she was standing on Schuylkill Avenue. \u201cWhen you look at your map, it doesn\u2019t say 29th Street on your phone map. So maybe a sign inside would be helpful,\u201d she suggested.<\/p>\n
Is a correction on the way? Without being specific, Amtrak only said that it \u201cwill continue to enhance the customer experience, including station wayfinding and signage,\u201d as part of its ongoing redevelopment of the station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 For years, signs inside 30th Street Station have directed travelers to a street that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7631,36118,94,69,71,70,2618],"class_list":["post-300246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-30th-street-station","tag-amtrak","tag-history","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-septa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}