The merely bleedin' obvious ...

The 10/08 edition of the Philadelphia Business Journal reported the results of a study which recommended improvements to SEPTA's services. A partial quote (italics mine):

"Better transit stop identification and improved passenger information were among the recommendations, which also included increasing average transit stop spacing from every block to alternate blocks, except at major 'ridership generators.' The study also suggested providing better route maps, service frequency schedules, fare summaries, and signage, displaying real-time service notices."

It would be interesting to find out how much the study cost, considering that every one of those items has been posted here at length, for free.

I worked for a consulting firm for 15 years. One of the jokes was, if you ask a consultant what time it is, they will borrow your watch, read the time, and hand it back to you with a bill for services rendered.

The full article is at http://www.bizjournals.com/philadelphia ... ily43.html.

That's why SEPTA doesn't have any money!

Will SEPTA do anything in response to this study, or just ignore it as it has with past studies?

At least this one was funded by the DVRPC.

Lucius Kwok wrote:Will SEPTA do anything in response to this study, or just ignore it as it has with past studies?

Need you ask?

At least this one was funded by the DVRPC.

Yes, at least the $$ didn't come directly from SEPTA's coffers. But the DVRPC, for all their good intentions, can only offer advice. They can talk, try to motivate, cajole, whatever, but they can't raise a dime of revenue for transit or exercise political clout to change the state's anti-transit culture.

Sad to say, many of the ideas that they have proposed over the years have remained just that, ideas. Around 1975 they released a major study outlining transit possibilities for the region, with targets running all the way up to the then far-future date of 2025. Except for the commuter tunnel (a relatively big "except", I admit) nothing else has happened.