Over the month to date, I have discussed the lack of service between the Paoli/Thorndale line and King of Prussia via using prime destinations as nodes to support these services. Then I remembered there’s a gap between Paoli and Newtown Square that maybe SEPTA overlocked with their micro transit plans.
Reasoning

My main reasoning for proposing this service is because of Amtrak and allowing suburb to suburb connection without driving to the station, since Paoli has had parking issues-and will continue to until a garage is built after North Valley Road’s reroute is complete.
The Routing
Starting at Paoli station, for connections to the 105 (presently operating as the 106), 142 (92 East of Paoli, 204 west of it), SEPTA Regional Rail, and Amtrak’s Keystone and Pennsylvanian (future National Limited?), it will briefly follow these routes, turning right where the 142 turns left, providing better access to the Paoli Acme. Left on Sugartown Road to better serve the YMCA (even if not a full deviation). Returning on to what is now called Paoli-Darby Road, it passes the Waynesborough Country Club; Episcopal Academy; and the edge of the Aronimink Golf Club.
After Goshen Road, it will deviate into the nearby corporate center to serve SAP’s US base before a brief concurrency with the 104, then paralleling the 112 and 118 to Delaware Community College, where service terminates. Despite showing what I call St Albans Loop, where the 118 terminates, that community college connection would be a larger justification since the 92 (future 142) deviation to Devon Park drive will be cut due to low ridership and minimal service that way, whilst passing more offices on its primary route and the 124 and 125 still terminate in corporate areas (although I still wish they promoted 125 service to Valley Forge Park Welcomes Center to full time).
It can be a 60 Max route since there are more useful connections provided by the other routes that serve the community college and Newtown Square and its more thruway nature or otherwise make it another branch of the Paoli micro transit area (I think the Croydon-Bristol-Levittown one is still bigger or they would be comparable in area with this change).
Northern “Beltline”

SEPTA has already seen a gap in a direct crosstown as the 77 will be extended to Torresdale (just short of a connection to the Trenton Line, fulfilled by route 84 to Holmesburg JCT) from Roosevelt Boulavard and Cottman Avenue. At its western terminus in Chestnut Hill, one can take the 51 to the Plymouth Meeting Mall, then either the 95 (via Conshohocken) or 98 (via Norristown) to the King of Prussia Mall, then the 142 to Paoli. From Newtown Square/Delaware County Community College, you can take the 118 to Chester TC-providing a full loop via busses on the Philadelphia side of the Delaware.
This routing approximates the Cross County line (The Trenton Cutoff: made up of the Dale Secondary west of Norristown and the Morrisville Line east), but would bring connections closer to Chestnut Hill, as the Cross County line is approximately 3 miles away from the Chestnut Hill lines-thus would likely garner more ridership from serving Chestnut Hill, Jenkintown-Wyncote, and extant Fox Chase line at Ryers (vs Southampton on the Newtown section).
Norristown also allows one to transfer from the 98 to the 96 toward Landsdale, also forming a belt connecting Chester and the major suburbs without going through center city. In all these cases though, service ends just short of Bucks County. In order to visit all 5 counties only on busses today would be 106 from 69th St Transit Center (or bare minimum Strafford) to Paoli (Declo to Chester), 92 to King of Prussia (Chester to Montgomery), 98 to Plymouth Meeting (still Montgomery), 51 to Fern Rock Transit Center (Montgomery to Philadelphia), 70 to Torresdale and Cottman (Still in Philly), 84 to Torresdale Station (Philadelphia to Bucks).
Final Thoughts
I didn’t expect this to turn “Pro-Micro”, but Paoli always being a key stop for the Pennsylvania Railroad, and now Amtrak, outside of 30th St itself, that maybe Micro Transit is the best solution to connect Paoli and Newtown Square since I doubt there would be much interest in the business and country club connections, but a connection to Delaware Valley Community College might be worth pursuing since Chester County doesn’t have a community college-providing a viable alternative to driving and post-secondary education on the main line.
Tell me your thoughts on these possible connections I’ve talked about the past month? Did SEPTA really miss this when designing the SEPTA GO Zones or are they holding back until its in service to fill in some of these gaps?