>>1303791That's correct. The line was supposed to wrap around but they never built it and they severed the connection in 1968 for the construction of PATCO, and rebuilt 8th street.
Then the PATCO line was proposed to extend under arch
https://hiddencityphila.org/2018/04/ghosts-of-the-abandoned-arch-street-subway-line/What Philadelphia could have been, and continues to fight. There have been proposals to extend PATCO out east towards AC, and others to drill a tunnel to University City.
Well, at least the center city commuter connection was built.
