Tadman wrote:You start to make sense of SEPTA, and then you realize you have no idea... At least that's my experience. They have a 2 mile branch, they have two lines going to Chestnut Hill, the airport is served by regional rail rather than subway, you've got the Norristown High Speed line which is cool but seems to duplicate two other lines and doesn't go downtown... Also, they're always broke. I've also never seen a system with such a high degree of animosity from the ridership.
Tell me about it. I happen to patronize them about once a month, including the NHSL.
My experiences have been pretty awful at the 33rd street subway, including being told to go to a CLOSED window to buy a token. The guy at the window I went to seemed to think it was MY problem the other window was closed, not his.
That said, I wouldn't say the NHSL duplicates anything as it runs through a number of neighborhoods that have no other service.
And w/o it, I most likely would not have accepted my current assignment (for better or for worse
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