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The $35.5 million project to overhaul the crumbling Levittown Regional Rail Station in Tullytown is expected to get underway Monday.
According to SEPTA, Phase I of the station reconstruction project will begin Monday when 71 parking spaces will be barricaded off temporarily.
Phase II of the work will begin Monday, November 16 when a group of 157 parking spaces will be closed for the next year.
The 1950s-era station will get new, high-level boarding platforms, improved traffic patterns and entrances off Fallsington Avenue and Route 13 and will also be made fully Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) accessible. Officials from SEPTA have said the station will get about 70 new parking spaces and a pedestrian overpass above the tracks.
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The current Levittown station serves about 1,200 commuters daily and is crumbling due to its age.
When officials announced the project in 2014, the cost was estimated to be roughly $30 million. Since that time, the expected cost has gone up.
During the reconstruction that is to be completed by summer 2018, SEPTA has leased 79 additional parking spaces at St. Michael the Archangel Church School own the street from the station.
Officials note there are 150 parking spaces for customers at the Bristol Regional Rail Station on Washington Street in Bristol Borough.
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