Why Should Delaware Care?Thousands of Delaware residents rely on SEPTA’s Wilmington/Newark train line to get to Philadelphia. A small town near Wilmington is weighing whether to build the fifth station in the state less than a year after the transit agency fell into financial turmoil.
A yearslong effort to bring passenger rail service back to Newport is once again under consideration with Delaware officials seeking public input about a proposed station that planners say could ease traffic in the state.
Representatives from Delaware’s public transit agency DART held a public workshop last week to gather community feedback on a conceptual plan for bringing a train station back to Newport…