Says our reader: “The snowstorm has gone to SEPTA’s head.”
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We mentioned last week that the “Love Letters” project, by artist Steve Powers aka ESPO, has got to be one of the coolest things the Mural Arts Program has ever been involved in. We stand by that statement, and we also wanted to hip you to this crazy project that Powers will be doing in [...]

Hey remember that time somebody posted a very realistic-looking “SEPTA announcement” that was secretly hilarious and also perhaps the truest series of words ever spoken in a row about Philly’s public transit? This is that. Delivered by a robot who would appear to be riding the Broad Street line.

Sure, we’ve all seen bums masturbating on the El — I mean, we have all seen that, right? — but do you think anyone actually ever finds real love on the SouthEastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority? With thousands upon thousands of riders every day, it seems inevitable. Which is why SEPTA is asking you to tell [...]

Greets… outside La Colombe on 19th St. off Rittenhouse Sq, someone got tired of waiting for SEPTA to put up a new bus stop sign.
A little permanent marker, some cheery yellow highlighter, a crooked smiley face (why not?), a dash of ScotchTape and voila!–homemade infrastructure. It’s been up for weeks.

[Photo: Mike McGettigan/Trophy Bikes]

It’s finally here. You can now utilize Google Transit to ascertain directions, schedules, and fares from one location in Philadelphia to another via the subway or RR. Bus and Trolley schedules to be added later this year. It’s been years in the process, and at times getting from one end of Philadelphia to another via [...]

SEPTA has announced plans to make wireless internet available in some form come the year 2010. They did not reveal details much beyond that; they did not say in what services it would be available or even if it will be a free. According to this article in today’s Metro, SEPTA’s primary concern is making [...]

I did a double take when I saw this scene at the Market-Frankford EL stop at 8th and Market this morning. The handwritten sign that is cut off on the right of the photo says “window closed.” It appears that closing down that window has given this SEPTA employee plenty of time to [...]

Willie Brown, the embattled and unloved blob/leader of Transportation Workers Union (TWU) Local 234, went on a bit of a media tour this week, speaking with Philly’s two alt-weeklies. In Philadelphia Weekly, on Wednesday we learned what we pretty much already knew: Dude has a conspiracy theory about possibly underfunded pensions at SEPTA, and has [...]

Is there no end to the havoc SEPTA has caused us? First they tried to destroy the World Series, only to destroy the Mr. 12th Air contest.

On the plus side, it’s nice to know that you could in fact meet the future Mr. 12th Air Command on the bus.
Seeing something around town of note? [...]

SEPTA (which has a brand spanking new website that links to Google Transit (which still doesn’t, of course, have bus times)) has their Transpass refund info page up. It ends:
“Customers receiving passes through Employer Programs or through Pre-Tax mechanisms must submit their pass by mail to the following address to receive credit.”
Of course, no [...]

Oh, SEPTA The Hut, I mean, Willie Brown! Everybody knows that, in all likelihood, SEPTA is probably doing right by your pension — it’s you guys in the Transportation Workers Union (TWU) Local 234 with whom we’ve all got major trust issues. But whatever: Now that the strike is over, Brown and His Distinctly Un-Merry [...]

In this long, wide-ranging piece in today’s Daily News, Catherine Lucey digs around, trying to get a bead on exactly where Mayor Michael Nutter stands, just about two years into his administration. As you might suspect, the news is mostly bad. In broad strokes, he’s doing perhaps better than John Street — no FBI bugs, [...]

As SEPTA-obsessed as we’ve been lately, we’ve been a little remiss in not talking more lately about the inherent romance of the regional rail during this time of year, what with the peak foliage and the Nick Drake on the headphones and whatnot. (Hey, can you blame us? A little Willie Brown is enough to [...]

Lord knows we’ve given SEPTA enough guff lately, but before our memories of The Strike That Was fade into the sunset, let us remember this bit for next time: The SEPTA strike was cured, in part at least, buy the promise of… more dick pills. (As in Viagra, Cialis, etc., and not — we repeat, [...]

Came across this on some porn site (sorry, not literally). Isn’t that a SEPTA seat?
Caution: Boobies, possibly on SEPTA, after the jump. No, it couldn’t be. They didn’t made it. We don’t-ed would believed it.

GIMME A HO! IF YOU GOT YOUR FUNKY BUS FARE! From Wikipedia:
“Double Dutch Bus” is a 1981 funk song by Frankie Smith, made famous for its extensive use of the “izz” infix form of slang. The song title represents a combination of two institutions in Smith’s Philadelphia, Pennsylvania neighborhood: the double dutch game of jump [...]

Next year, tokens will go from $1.45 to $1.60, and a weekly TransPass from $20.75 to about $22.75. At this point, this injury has been insulted so much that we can’t even feel it anymore. Whatever.

Remember all that stuff we were saying yesterday morning about Mayor Michael Nutter and his dwindling stock? Well, this is not going to help: Even after narrowly avoiding cutting 3,000 city jobs in the wake of the state budget crisis and getting that seemingly-all-important sales tax hike, the city is still projecting a $31M defecit [...]

So, now that the SEPTA strike is over, what have we learned? Well, a few things: One, for sure, is that sometimes, old-school Philly politicking still works — a lot of the credit for the tentative agreement is being thrown good ol’ Bob Brady’s way. (We still won’t trust him with our Internet connection, but [...]