Coatesville Dems: Coatesville PA Train station meeting AUDIO RECORDING June 1, 2015

Audio recording of public meeting and open house on plans for the new Coatesville Train Station Wednesday, June 3, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Olivet Methodist Church:

This was the last public meeting about the new Coatesville Train Station and Entrepreneurial Center.

The next step is the architecture and engineering plans. And on to construction in 2017.

Most of the hard part is done. The money is coming from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania through PennDot and the Federal government.

This was the last public meeting about the new Coatesville Train Station and Entrepreneurial Center.

The next step is the architecture and engineering plans. And on to construction in 2017.

Most of the hard part is done. The money is coming from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania through PennDot.

Hours after the deadly train wreck in Philadelphia Congress slashed funding for Amtrak.

SEPTA is also dependent on federal funding to keep running and to expand the Thorndale to Doylestown line passed Thorndale to Coatesville, Parkesburg and Atglen.

I don't believe anyone expects the current U.S. Congress to expand transportation funding of any kind.

We do have Amtrak service here now and hopefully it will continue.

We did have SEPTA service in Coatesville in the 1960s. I commuted on those trains.

The idea of building the train station and entrepreneurial center is, build it and they will come.

When the train station is built voters in Chester County will apply more pressure to Congress and get them to do what they were supposed to be doing for the last few decades.

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Olivet Church hosts meeting about Coatesville Train Station

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Wednesday, June 3, 2015 - 11:01 p.m.

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