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The new Levittown Regional Rail station in Tullytown is the center of a lawsuit filed Thursday by SEPTA.
According to PlanPhilly, SEPTA is seeking a preliminary injunction against Tullytown due to a dispute over fees. The transit agency claims the borough is interfering with their efforts to build the $37 million train station at the site.
In the lawsuit filed in federal court, SEPTA takes issue with the fees it owes Tullytown, which the transit agency says may not be valid due to federal law. SEPTA also alleges officials from the borough threatened to fine contractors, double permit fees and stop work.
“If they want to say federal law trumps our ability to our job, then we have to decide whether we want to spend good taxpayer money fighting that,” borough solicitor Mike Sellers told PlanPhilly.
A rendering of the new station.
Credit: SEPTA
As part of the station reconstruction, 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.
The current Levittown station serves about 1,200 commuters daily and is crumbling due to its age.
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