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Posted on 04/06/2021 11:58:19 AM PDT by Olog-hai
SEPTA riders are candid about what they see on buses, subways and the Market-Frankford elevated line.
And some of them say what they have seen has made them reluctant to ride right now — which is a huge problem for a transit agency that gets hundreds of thousands of people to work daily.
“Dirty trash. I’ve seen empty needles,” said Charles Williams of West Philadelphia.
“It was filth everywhere”, said Mona Scruggs of Northeast Philadelphia. “I had to buy a newspaper every day, just so I could sit on the newspaper, because I didn’t want to sit on the seat.”
Cleanliness on the system grabbed headlines this year, when SEPTA had to close the Somerset Station on the Market-Frankford line due to a litany of problems. The station had piles of trash as well as urine and feces in it. So many needles had been thrown into the elevator — and the elevator had been urinated on so often — that it was unusable. […]
More than one in four of our survey’s respondents say they have stopped using SEPTA altogether.
“I just think it’s at its worst now,” said Quan Harvin, a SEPTA rider. …
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcphiladelphia.com ...
In most of our lifetimes, cities were clean, relatively safe, no litter, no graffiti, no bums, none of the filth described here, no public drug use, no needles scattered all over.
Is there ever going to be a way back to that era? Or is it going to be a nonstop slide to oblivion?
Is SEPTA septic, perhaps? 😉
Philly’s public transit has always been a filthy, slow, dangerous nightmare. No one who has any other option should be using it. Of course, I’ve never been a fan of that city to begin with. Or most cities, for that matter.
Sounds like Philly’s lower intestine.
We’re quickly sliding down the drain.
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What do most midstaters think of SEPTA?
S ucking
E nergy
P urchase
T axes
A way
Philthadumpia.
Like most “mess” transit, it’s rolling toilets and homeless shelters that pass through stationary toilets and homeless shelters, unwillingly paid for by people who avoid using it.
I was talking to someone recently about some of these changes we have seen in recent years. And she told me, well, we don’t want to romantacize the ‘50s, because there were still Jim Crow laws, women didn’t have rights, gays were in the closet, etc. etc.
I don’t understand the mindset of someone like that. We were actually talking about how bad problems we have with trash, gang graffiti, homeless people, etc. and she brings up how we don’t want to turn back the clock on gays.
Maybe don’t name your public transit system something so easily confused with “septic system” and people wouldn’t use it as a commode.
It’s had that name since November of 1965. All of 55 years of existence, leeching off the public and turning formerly private railroads into tenants on their own properties until the government forced buyouts on them.
There is only way to return cities to civilization.
The Democratic Party will have to be outlawed as a criminal organization—banned as a political party.
Otherwise—fuggetaboutit.
Philthadelphia has been that way for decades. I was at 30th Street Station on the Suburban level back in 1985, where the stairs to the platform smelled strongly of urine.
SEPTA...Screw Every Person Thoroughly, Always.
(Passengers and employees alike.)
For anyone who might have missed it, you can see that article here:
"Philadelphia's Skid Row: Shocking video captures city's homeless crisis with dozens camped out along 'largest open-air drug market on the East Coast'" - (Daily Mail - UK)
"Philadelphia's Skid Row: Shocking video captures city's homeless crisis with dozens camped out along 'largest open-air drug market on the East Coast'" - (Free Republic)
There was also the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company, aka the Red Arrow Lines. The former Philadelphia & Western Railroad became SEPTA’s Norristown High-Speed Line. The “Regional Rail” lines are formerly the property and operations of the Pennsylvania and Reading railroads, save the Center City tunnel that was built by the city of Philadelphia.
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