They took long enough to get here: the Silverliner V car order was plagued by delays and production problems of all kinds. SEPTA formally took delivery of the last of the 120 cars in March, three years behind schedule.
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SEPTA’s Newest “Rolling Equipment Problem”
By Sandy Smith 5/21/2013
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Those shiny new SEPTA Regional Rail cars sure look great, don’t they?
Video: Baby in Stroller Falls Onto SEPTA Tracks
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 5/16/2013
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A 14-month-old baby fell into the tracks at the 56th Street Station on the Market-Frankford Line yesterday afternoon, after her stroller, which was not in a locked position, rolled away from the platform. (Her mother, 28, had become distracted.) Within a few moments, her mother jumped into the tracks and lifted her out. The infant suffered minor facial injuries and was brought to CHOP.
19 seconds after a bystander hit the SEPTA emergency call button, an incoming train from 60th Street was halted. Absent that, it might have arrived within a minute. [Daily News]
GOP Legislators Call SEPTA Funding A Form of “Welfare”
By Joel Mathis 5/08/2013
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Some of our betters in Harrisburg apparently think so. City Paper's Dan Denvir reports:
Funding for SEPTA and other public transit is "subsidizing a minority of our population’s bus fare, which is just more welfare," said state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe (R-Butler), according to an e-mail discussion obtained by the Capitolwire news service (subscription only).
Metcalfe's comments were sparked by an e-mail sent out by Rep. Tom Killion (R-Delaware) citing "a new report [that] showed 27 percent of the state’s transportation funding went to southeastern Pennsylvania – Bucks, Philadelphia, Delaware, Chester and Montgomery counties – while that region had 32 percent of the state population
Richard Branson Should Buy SEPTA
By Gene Marks 5/02/2013
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SEPTA: Budget Cuts Creating Grim Outlook
By Joel Mathis 4/24/2013
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After the Eagles and Phillies, bashing SEPTA is the third-most-loved sport in Philadelphia, which is kind of unfair, because moving tens of thousands of people around the region every day, in a timely fashion, is really very difficult. Really. So the news out of budget hearings is somewhat alarming: The agency says its proposed $308 million capital budget—the money it uses to build new stuff and do major repairs on old stuff—isn't enough.
In fact, the number represents a 25 percent cut since 2010. The Inquirer reports on the consequences of the proposed budget:
Most of the money in the $308
Another Reason Never Ever to Use Cash on SEPTA
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 4/04/2013
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When SEPTA transitions to a tokenless world next year, $1 paper transfers will also go extinct. Instead, if you want to hop from trolley to bus (or any two-seat ride) you've got two options. 1: Pay that $1 transfer fare with a smart media" tool (SEPTA smart cards or swipeless debit cards); 2: Pay the full fare over again in cash.
Put another way: If you need to make two trips, using only cash, you'll pay $2.50 for both of them, and be out a Lincoln. If you have a smart device, however, you'll pay a base fare of $1.80, and
Commuters Can Pick Up Reading At Suburban Station’s New “Virtual Library”
By Joel Mathis 4/02/2013
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CBS Philly reports on a new "virtual library" being operated by the Free Library of Philadelphia at Suburban Station; it consists of 76 "brightly colored" boards, containing codes that commuters can scan to download e-books and audiobooks down to their phones and tablets. "Free Library president Siobhan Reardonsays riders will find a sample of 80,000 e-books, 8,000 audiobooks, and 1,000 author podcasts at the Suburban Station kiosk throughout the month of April." The Free Library says it believe this is the first virtual library located at a train station.
Man Jumps onto SEPTA Tracks to Save Another Guy’s Life
By Simon van Zuylen-Wood 3/29/2013
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At 12:40 p.m. yesterday at the Cecil B. Moore station on the Broad Street line, a man walked off the subway platform (deliberately or not, it isn't clear), falling onto the tracks. As a crowd of onlookers began to mill about and peer concernedly down at him, 32-year-old Christopher Knaflec sprang up, jumped down, and instructed a SEPTA cashier to stop a southbound train. Knaflec's own story, Daily News reports, is remarkable in its own right: the Good Samaritan has long struggled with drug addiction, and is now in Philly trying to clean up and resume his studies at Temple. Video
Three Things to Remember When You Think of the “SEPTA Baby”
By Joel Mathis 3/27/2013
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Rather than get a righteous outrage worked up over the 15-year-old mom who accidentally left her baby at a SEPTA station Monday because she and her mother were apparently trying to cheat the transit fare, let’s cool our heels and remember three things:
