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SEPTA Needs Money: Here’s How To Get Some
My latest for Next American City, on how to get more funding to the Delaware Valley’s struggling transit system: What is needed, quite simply, is more money. Unlike many other transit authorities,...
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Trolleys: West Philly’s Got ‘Em
I’m continuing my quest to re-post my Inquirer op-eds, which have the nasty habit of vanishing into the ether if left to their own devices (and to Philly.com). One of my favorite things about living in...
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SEPTA: Tokens (Soon To Be) No Longer Accepted
February ruined me this year. I got deathly ill three weeks ago and was able to do little but hack and read Stephen King’s The Stand for days on end. It was pretty awful and I’m only just starting to...
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Digging into the new regional rail fare changes
Exactly one month ago I dug into SEPTA’s fare data for the upcoming July 1 hikes. While fares will mostly be going up across the board, the re-shuffling of regional rail zones will actually save some...
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Philly Regional Rail System is Great, Nonsensical, and Inequitable
My piece for Next City on the problems, and potential, of SEPTA’s regional rail network. There’s a lot of fun history and weird bits about contemporary labor relations. And there’s no doubt that the...
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The worst idea in SEPTA’s Operarting Budget
Last month I covered SEPTA’s Philadelphia operating and capital budget hearings for Next City. I’m not sure which were more depressing, but I’ll start with the operating budget hearings because they...
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Will someone please give SEPTA some money?
SEPTA’s Capital budget hearings were sparsely populated and super depressing, largely because there just isn’t that much to be done. SEPTA’s capital budget is really small: $308 million (compare with...
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Transfers are an inconvenience for riders, so we shouldn’t have to pay for them
As long as I’m re-posting work that was published awhile ago, here’s my first (and so far only) piece for Axis Philly. It’s about transit in Philadelphia, the historical fights over fare increases,...
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