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Anonymous Sat 10 Feb 2024 22:50:21 No.1979067 View View Reply Original Report

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Anonymous Sat 10 Feb 2024 22:58:42 No.1979068 Report

Quoted By: >>1980305 >>1980424

It smells

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 11 Feb 2024 13:11:01 No.1979155 Report

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>>1979067
They're getting there.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 14 Feb 2024 21:33:20 No.1979724 Report

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shout out to philadelphia

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 17 Feb 2024 23:51:02 No.1980289 Report

Quoted By: >>1984028

i love the paoli/thorndale line

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Feb 2024 02:44:04 No.1980305 Report

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>>1979068
No not "septic" it's SEPTA.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Feb 2024 20:39:01 No.1980424 Report

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>>1979068
MFL is shit
BSL is fine

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 23 Feb 2024 17:41:47 No.1981555 Report

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I know a bunch of people who make fantasy maps for SEPTA's RR and metro, while the actual organization like no master plan for expansions or even just getting back the rputes they cut in the 80s whatsoever lol

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 24 Feb 2024 22:44:20 No.1981756 Report

Quoted By: >>1984224 >>1990670

When I'm national dictator of American I will allocate 20 billion yearly to public transit
but it all goes to SEPTA
because it would be funny

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Anonymous Sat 24 Feb 2024 23:06:04 No.1981774 Report

Quoted By: >>1985034

>chronically underfunded its entire existence
>among the lowest funded per capita transit authority in the country
>illegal in PA for municipalities to raise a tax to fund public transit
>forced to allocate the funds it gets from Harrisburg almost entirely to operations
>$5 billion maintenance backlog
>operators make ~20% less than regional peers
>only ~200 transit police to cover entire system across the region

>"WTF WHY IS SEPTA SO DIRTY AND UNSAFE, CUT THEIR FUNDING IMMEDIATELY"

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 26 Feb 2024 00:04:29 No.1982098 Report

Quoted By: >>1984028

>>1979067
I still wish their regional rail did late night service. I Want to be able to stay at the bars till closing, not call it a night at 11

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 07 Mar 2024 21:00:26 No.1983852 Report

Quoted By: >>1984028

4 shootings involving septa buses in 4 days

God bless america

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 08 Mar 2024 15:29:10 No.1984028 Report

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>>1980289
meet me at saint davids so we can kiss at microcenter uWu

>>1982098
I wish the subways did too, taking a $$$ lyft / uber home because its 1am is annoying.

>>1983852
most of that shit is in north philly, tragic that black people can't stop shooting each other for 5 seconds.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 Mar 2024 02:04:41 No.1984224 Report

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>>1981756
Can you extend a rapid transit line up Roosevelt Boulevard then up the Northeast Corridor up to Boston? I'm sure "rapid transit" can also include trains that move at 200 mph in addition to trains that run every 3 minutes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 Mar 2024 02:08:53 No.1984226 Report

Quoted By: >>1984439

Has SEPTA built literally anything new in the past 50 years?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 09 Mar 2024 12:11:16 No.1984279 Report

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i will never forgive them for building an s-bahn and then refusing to operate it like one

Nobody

Nobody Sat 09 Mar 2024 20:04:03 No.1984364 Report

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Is Philly the first suburb city?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 10 Mar 2024 04:44:42 No.1984439 Report

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>>1984226
They opened the Wawa station in August 2022 but that’s it really

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 10 Mar 2024 05:05:31 No.1984441 Report

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As someone who left to work in Center City at 4 AM, it was mostly reliable and easy to use.

Like the rest of Philadelphia, the only bad part about SEPTA was the other people who used it.

People hate on the system when they really just hate the people

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Anonymous Sun 10 Mar 2024 10:33:02 No.1984467 Report

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>>1979067

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Anonymous Sun 10 Mar 2024 15:52:42 No.1984503 Report

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yesterday I got on the BSL southbound and there was a person who DEFINITELY shit themselves the entire car smelled like human shit, plus 3 people smoking weed at the same time. We need armed transit cops on every car so bad telling people to cut it out.

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Anonymous Wed 13 Mar 2024 12:55:13 No.1985034 Report

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>>1981774
SEPTA suffers from such insane levels of "if it ain't broke don't fix it" mentality, its workers have to beg riders to file complaints just to convince leafership a known problem needs to be fixed.
Totally functional transit authority we got here.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 20 Mar 2024 23:34:17 No.1986239 Report

Quoted By: >>1986257 >>1987407

I haven't lived in Philly for over a decade, what's their payment system like now? Are they still doing transfers and tokens and shit or have they moved on to NFC payments or something like that, what's the deal

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 21 Mar 2024 01:18:51 No.1986257 Report

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>>1986239
You used to have to use a septa card, you had to load these at a kiosk or online and those were the only way to pay (or cash at a booth / on the train for regional rail).

Last year in September they finally rolled out tap to pay for bus / trolly / subway. I don't think regional rail accepts tap to pay yet but it's coming.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 26 Mar 2024 02:11:13 No.1987407 Report

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>>1986239
It's goofy.
You can buy single trip ticket cards at kiosks, otherwise you're stuck on their unholy marriage of an oyster card and a prepaid credit card. For Regional Rail, you can board and buy a card from the "conductor" (that they haven't gotten rid of yet, shockingly). They have to have that, because the turnstiles in Center City need a swipe and stations out in fuck-all don't have kiosks to buy tickets most of the time.
Buses still take cash, if the machine is actually working on the bus you're on.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 26 Mar 2024 03:55:49 No.1987420 Report

Quoted By: >>1987424

Is it really more dysfunctional/ghetto than the MTA?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 26 Mar 2024 04:23:38 No.1987424 Report

Quoted By: >>1987431

>>1987420
At least in NYC, I was able to buy an MTA card and load it/swipe it without issue. When I visited Philly, the card machine at the airport didn't work and the ticket to get to city center was stupid expensive. I wasn't able to get a card out of the center center machine on the way back either, so I had to buy a ticket with cash on the train again. I thought my own system (MARTA) was bad, but jesus christ.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 26 Mar 2024 05:09:29 No.1987431 Report

Quoted By: >>1987670

>>1987424
Lmao. I’m from Atlanta too. But live in NYC now. Probably rode Marta under 5 times growing up, and never a bus

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 26 Mar 2024 23:32:23 No.1987670 Report

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>>1987431
I've got a soft spot for MARTA. The headways suck, especially on weekends, but on weekdays it's generally been reliable for me and it's mostly normal people on the train. Family took it to Braves games at the end of the Fulton County stadium era and through Turner Field's lifetime. Then I took it when I commuted downtown for college. Always annoyed me that Gwinnett and Cobb fought so hard against it and that the GA legislature is deadset against giving it any of GDOT's road money. It's a good foundation for a wider system, but the disfunctional petty fiefdoms that make up the local regional government structure and lack of state support hamstring it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 04 Apr 2024 03:49:39 No.1989478 Report

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>>1979067
So much potential

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 08 Apr 2024 21:37:39 No.1990392 Report

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>>1979067
>septa key
>try and be a debit card
>septa itself doesn't take debit/credit cards

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Apr 2024 08:17:44 No.1990670 Report

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>>1981756

ngl septa would find a way to waste 90% of the money and use 10% for something thats completely unneeded and unused

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 10 Apr 2024 12:46:07 No.1990699 Report

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>>1980305
Septa? More like septic.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 25 Apr 2024 12:36:48 No.1993273 Report

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bump because it's not an urbanism spam thread

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 26 Apr 2024 02:35:25 No.1993461 Report

Quoted By: >>1995432 >>1995433

>>1979067
SEPTIC
on account of all the poos and shitskins filling it

buy a car like i did and be free
you have nothing to lose but your chains

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 26 Apr 2024 16:25:10 No.1993543 Report

Quoted By: >>1995110

Regional Rail is comfy if you are going to/from specific points in the suburbs to center city, otherwise it's kinda useless
Both subway lines are disgusting, I would rather walk
Buses aren't bad, not great either

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Anonymous Sun 05 May 2024 03:32:11 No.1995110 Report

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>>1993543
what if they made a second through-running regional rail system interlined with the current one for cross-suburban transit

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 May 2024 22:38:13 No.1995428 Report

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>>1995110
>Exton to west chester
>when the tracks to the NEC still exist
Kind of dumb, and your Somerton line goes to the ass-end of nowhere.
Everybody transferring either Norristown or Lansdale isn't great, but it makes sense given regional geography and existing connections.
Why not take Pottstown all the way to Reading? It's not much further.
>>Schwenksville / Rahns to Airport LOCAL, making all stops
>Schwenksville
>Rahns
>Collegevill
>Yerkes
>Arcola
>Philadelphia Expo Center
>Valley Forge
>Port Kennedy (flag stop)
>Norristown Transportation Center
>Conshohocken
>Spring Mill
>Miquon
>Ivy Ridge
>Manayunk
>Wissahickon
>East Falls
>Allegheny
>North Broad
>Temple University
>Market East
>Suburban
>30th Street
>University City
>Eastwick
>Philadephia International Airport (4 stops)
9/10 idea, 6/10 2.5 hour ride if SEPTA actually did it

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 May 2024 22:47:40 No.1995429 Report

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>>1995428
>>when the tracks to the NEC still exist
It's based around the Trenton Cut-off ROW, which has been the subject of a proposed Cross-County line in the past. I just expanded off that. Sending the cross-suburban line through 30th Street just kinda defeats the purpose, so the new ROW on the 202 was drawn.
>Kind of dumb, and your Somerton line goes to the ass-end of nowhere.
Neshaminy Falls and Langhorne which were the end of 15 minute frequent service in the original through-running SEPTA RR plan.
>Why not take Pottstown all the way to Reading?
Only included counties where SEPTA service exists currently.

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Anonymous Tue 07 May 2024 00:01:53 No.1995432 Report

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>>1993461
>JUST, LIKE, DRIVE CAR OR WALK
No thanks commie faggot, I don't fuck with (((mandatory purchase of auto insurance))) and (((registering your vehicle.))) I carry a gun with me wherever I go.
>pic related, your stupid trailer trash ass

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 07 May 2024 00:02:54 No.1995433 Report

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>>1993461
Oh, and:
>>>/o/

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Anonymous Fri 17 May 2024 20:52:10 No.1997422 Report

Quoted By: >>1997454 >>1997470

Why does this line still exist?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 17 May 2024 23:54:54 No.1997454 Report

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>>1997422
just in case

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 18 May 2024 03:41:43 No.1997470 Report

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>>1997422
There were some old rich retirees along it, plus the Delaware Valley rail passengers whatever association fighting to keep it.
For the record, I think it should still run, but it's hobbled by infrequent service and doesn't go far enough since the area north of Cynwyd is a trail. Its days are numbered to whenever that bridge over Zoo shits the bed.

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