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on Tue Apr 6 14:00:02 2021, in response to What do riders really think of SEPTA?, posted by TransitChuckG on Tue Apr 6 13:14:08 2021.
“Dirty trash. I’ve seen empty needles,” said Charles Williams of West Philadelphia.
“It was filth everywhere, said Mona Scruggs of Northeast Philadelphia. “I had to buy a newspaper every day, just so I could sit on the newspaper, because I didn't want to sit on the seat.”
Cleanliness on the system grabbed headlines this year, when SEPTA had to close the Somerset Station on the Market-Frankford line due to a litany of problems. The station had piles of trash as well as urine and feces in it. So many needles had been thrown into the elevator – and the elevator had been urinated on so often – that it was unusable.
SEPTA says it knows that people won't come back to ride after the pandemic if they don't feel safe. That's why the transit agency is putting guards along the Market-Frankford elevated line. NBC10's Matt DeLucia reports.
“The mechanics have been damaged by urination, by discarded needles being jammed into floorboards,” said Leslie Richards, SEPTA’s general manager.
I thought that was the draw of democratic neighborhoods.
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