I often feel badly when I knock SEPTA, since their mgmt is just so pathetic. They cannot figure out how to get themselves out of their hole: with breath-taking ineptness (dirty stations, poor communication with riders, surly staff), they alienate their customers who could be their greatest advocates for more funding from the state. With embarassing mismanagement (the El reconstruction), they anger folks who don't use transit, and cement their perception that it is a waste of tax dollars.
They really need someone with a combination of vision and smarts. No doubt that Ms. Moore is a great accountant, but she has proven that she is not capable of energizing this key public asset. It is a really difficult job, maybe an impossible job, but it is time to give the task to someone else.
Anyway, the trolleys on Rt 15 are indeed new guts in old skin that has been facelifted. SEPTA really has no desire to operate in an environmentally friendly manner, or they would have ordered trackless trolleys for the South Philadelphia lines that have the infrastructure in place, that the community wanted!
Whew, I'm a crank today.
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Originally Posted by damonabnormal
Actually the 15 trolleys are not that old, they are the old bodies modified to fit on new chassis... the so called new trolleys that run in West Philly are old by comparison which is odd but there ya have it. The problems on the 15 have a lot to do with SEPTA not really trying to hard to maintain the infrastructure I have a feeling. They certainly did not want to bring back the trolleys, and the 23 can no longer run trolleys as SEPTA removed infrastructure for it against the cities wishes.
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