by wanderer34
I've already lost faith with SEPTA as a major transit agency!!! When it comes to it's bus service, some routes like the 16, the 56, and and 47 makes sense, while others, such as the H, the XH, and the 26 makes no sense at all to me!!! The subway service, while you can go north, south, west, and northeast, doesn't even reach much of the northeast, northwest, southwest, and suburbs like Jenkintown, Norristown, Bensalem, Darby, and Chester. And lastly, there's the commuter rail system, which was once a great system in it's own right.
There was a time when one could go from Center City Phila to Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton, Reading, Lancaster, Oxford PA, and West Chester by rail, but somehow in the 80's, SEPTA cut a lot of diesel service, and this affected a lot of the outlying communities from reaching Phila by rail, and a a result people who loved in communities like Pottstown, Newtown, Quakertown, Wawa, Coatesville and Kennett Square were forced to commute with their cars to nearby park and ride facilities such as Norristown, Paoli, Lansdale, and Elwyn. I have absolutely nothing against park an ride facilities, as it provides suburbanites with the option of driving form their homes to the closest station, which was the original intent of park and ride stations, but how SEPTA does it is to take commuter from Chester, Upper Montco, and Upper Bucks, and rather than providing commuters with the closest rail station, are now dictating to it's suburban commuters to just take their cars and drive to Norristown, Jenkintown, Elwyn, and Lansdale as opposed to renovating and restoring stations in Berks, Lehigh, Northampton, and Lancaster as well as in Chester, Montgomery, and Bucks counties.
Isn't SEPTA's primary responsibility supposed to be providing mass transit service within Southeastern PA??? I don't remember this agency being called just the PTA alone but SEPTA, meaning not just the Greater Philadelphia area, but the Lehigh Valley and Pennsylvania Dutch Country. I can agree that SEPTA needs to be fully reformed from the top, and have the higher ups dismissed and new blood to bring back not just reliable commuter rail service, but also better bus, trolley, and subway service as well!!! SEPTA is nothing more than a glorified bus agency running a rail system and the current higher ups need to go!!!
There was a time when one could go from Center City Phila to Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton, Reading, Lancaster, Oxford PA, and West Chester by rail, but somehow in the 80's, SEPTA cut a lot of diesel service, and this affected a lot of the outlying communities from reaching Phila by rail, and a a result people who loved in communities like Pottstown, Newtown, Quakertown, Wawa, Coatesville and Kennett Square were forced to commute with their cars to nearby park and ride facilities such as Norristown, Paoli, Lansdale, and Elwyn. I have absolutely nothing against park an ride facilities, as it provides suburbanites with the option of driving form their homes to the closest station, which was the original intent of park and ride stations, but how SEPTA does it is to take commuter from Chester, Upper Montco, and Upper Bucks, and rather than providing commuters with the closest rail station, are now dictating to it's suburban commuters to just take their cars and drive to Norristown, Jenkintown, Elwyn, and Lansdale as opposed to renovating and restoring stations in Berks, Lehigh, Northampton, and Lancaster as well as in Chester, Montgomery, and Bucks counties.
Isn't SEPTA's primary responsibility supposed to be providing mass transit service within Southeastern PA??? I don't remember this agency being called just the PTA alone but SEPTA, meaning not just the Greater Philadelphia area, but the Lehigh Valley and Pennsylvania Dutch Country. I can agree that SEPTA needs to be fully reformed from the top, and have the higher ups dismissed and new blood to bring back not just reliable commuter rail service, but also better bus, trolley, and subway service as well!!! SEPTA is nothing more than a glorified bus agency running a rail system and the current higher ups need to go!!!