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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.
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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.
Maybe don’t name your public transit system something so easily confused with “septic system” and people wouldn’t use it as a commode.
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.
I am not a rider of SEPTA, but I have to effing pay for it through my taxes. So I just hope if collapses one day.
The natives are revolting. So we will make gas 10 bucks a gallon and force them to ride.
For a few years I lived in the suburbs and commuted into the city on the SEPTA train. Service was OK but not great. Trains were still pretty clean, but I gradually started driving instead because I couldn't rely on SEPTA to get me to work on time.
Since the late 1980's Philadelphia has become progressively more dirty, corrupt and generally dysfunctional. Weak leadership and an unwillingness to enforce reasonable laws of civilized behavior are a big issue. When Rendell, Castille and Abraham served as District Attorneys (1978-2010), criminals were treated more as threats to civilized life and less as pitiable victims in an unfair world. Since 2010, and especially since Krasner was elected, criminals have had less to worry about. It accelerates the spiral. We still go into the city for medical appointments, and our young adult son lives on the outskirts of the city limits. We are careful, drive ourselves, and haven't gone into Philadelphia for an evening of dinner and entertainment in probably 15 years. It is really sad to see what has happened to our nation's cities.
My daughter loves to recount the time she saw a live crab shuffling down the aisle on a Broad Street line car.
I could be delivered nearly door to door, totally reimbursed to work, yet I walk or pay $12 ones a day to avoid the riff-raff.
I’d used SEPTA for 20+ years, but things are deteriorating with a quickness.