We may be few in number relative to the total population, thunda, but we reverse commuters are also beginning to fill the trains outbound in the morning and inbound in the evening. Fern Rock sees almost as many passenger boardings as Jenkintown, it seems, and anybody living near that station headed downtown would take the Broad Street Line instead.

They get off at places called Trevose or Fort Washington or Woodbourne or Wayne, there to board shuttle buses to places like Neshaminy or Oxford Valley or Great Valley.

Within Center City, their small numbers increased sixfold from 1990 to 2000, and probably continue to grow exponentially as the city center has become ever more a residential district of choice.

It's no substitute for a healthy job market in the city center, but from a ridership perspective, it's pretty much the same thing.

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Sandy Smith, Exile on Market Street, Philadelphia
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