Comments on: Here Is The Post Where You Can Complain About The SEPTA Fare Hike.

By: Stacker

Stacker — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:42:21 +0000

Taco, I’m well aware but I was specifically referring to the subway system in my post. Buses are all well and good but they’re seldom on time and take a good deal of time to get from one place to another once you’re actually on board. Throw in a transfer or two and you’ve got a pretty long trip when compared to a straight shot or one transfer subway trip. And by the way, D.C. has just as extensive a bus system as Philly too; oh yeah and it’s cleaner and cheaper.

By: Black (jack) Taco the Eviscerator!

Black (jack) Taco the Eviscerator! — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:11:52 +0000

Stacker, there are these things called buses. You’re never more than a couple of blocks from them. They feed into the subway and trolley system.

Now those buses need a better design that discourages the creation of choke point crowds in the first third of the bus, maybe by losing the back riser, but that’s a problem with the equipment, not your inaccurate problem with the system’s coverage.

By: Stacker

Stacker — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:50:41 +0000

A fare price should reflect the quality of the transit system. The DC subway system, unlike Philly’s, is extensive (you are never more than a few blocks from a subway stop), runs on time, and runs frequently. I’d have no problem at all with an even higher fare price if our public transit system was able to rival that of DC’s.

By: numismatic

numismatic — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:39:33 +0000

SEPTA is being controlled by our new government and they are really looking at the big picture money is the root to most evil in this world, we all need a change but when is it going to happen.

First 100 days in office and President Barack Obama is really getting hammered with so much information. Who knows what is going to happen next but we need our troops to come home and look at the economic situation America is in SEPTA is a small piece to the puzzle so just relax and join them what can we do as people okay I have an idea lets start at the end of DEC no use SEPTA and see if they change there rates.
HAHA

By: the_ill

the_ill — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:01:32 +0000

i didnt read any of the comments, but they better install some sort of metrocard system to coincide with this hike

By: barryg

barryg — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:51:10 +0000

@Nate, gotcha, the SEPTA number is bus, trolley and subway; the DC is just the Metro.

By: Nate

Nate — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:20:14 +0000

@barryg:
Those numbers (for both cities) only count the subway/heavy rail system, I think.

By: barryg

barryg — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:45:51 +0000

@Timo,

The media was throwing around the number of somewhere near 950,000 daily trips on SEPTA, so someone is wrong here.

By: Timo

Timo — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:51:21 +0000

I did live there, took the Metro roundtrip from Foggy Bottom to L’Enfant Plaza every day for three years. I also took Amtrak back to Philly on the weekends. You instantly knews you weren’t in Kansas anymore when you got on El at 30th St. In winter, the Walnut-Locust subway station looks like the set of the Thriller video, only more rats and a greater threat of random violence.

By: Timo

Timo — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:32:33 +0000

The DC Metro is from a smaller city and carries more daily passengers. From wiki:

Metro is the second-busiest rapid transit system in the United States in number of passenger trips, after the New York City Subway.[4] There were 215.3 million trips, or 727,684 trips per weekday, on Metrorail in fiscal year 2008.[5] In June 2008, Metro set a new monthly ridership record with 19,729,641 trips, or 798,456 per weekday.[5]