After being on the drawing board for 100 years, New York City finally opened the Second Avenue subway on Jan. 1, adding two miles of tunnel with three new stations on Manhattan’s Upper East Side at a cost of $4.5 billion — yes billion, with a B.
Philadelphia is lucky it doesn’t need to build such expensive infrastructure to support economic growth. Considering its position on Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor, Philadelphia should do more to recognize the value of what it has and do more to take…