Thursday, March 19, 2009

Phoning it In

market east station septa
I was waiting on line at the Market East Station a few days ago when I saw the photo above. An empty jack with 2 signs. One indicating it's the direct line to telephone information and the other marking the wall (?) as a SEPTA rail station. Granted, there is an info desk which is usually staffed about 20' from the empty jack and there's the 4 walk up windows which are open until 7p (which I think is absolutely ri-fucking-diculous for the 5th 6th largest city in the US), but what about when there's nobody there? I didn't walk around the rest of the large station to see if there was a similar, but occupied, info phone jack.

Ah SEPTA. I can't fucking stand ya, but I can't live without ya.

4 comments:

  1. great idea! maybe an ongoing tokenless station report... :P mel
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  2. God forbid the 5th largest city in the U.S. would have tokens...or staff. I'm pretty sure I pay a fortune to commute on the R5 every day...a lot more than in any other major city in the U.S. And for that, what do I get? I have to say, our engineer on the R5 in the morning is great...but the rest...wow. I have had some really rotten experiences. Can you imagine how a visitor to Philly must feel?
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  3. My favorite are the booth token people who won't make change. Why are they there? What do they do that the machine doesn't.

    I used to also used to like the old automated machines that said "no new twenties." This was like six years after the new twenties had been introduced.
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  4. this is an awesome idea, albert. i wish i was still riding septa on a daily basis so i could contribute!
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How has SEPTA failed you?