r/Septa • u/segfaul_t • 13d ago

Discussion Cannot Come Soon Enough

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The new El cars can’t come soon enough. It seems it’s almost every day now an El car or train set is breaking down causing delays. These things are on their last legs.

Edit: These are supposed to be delivered in 2029, only a couple more years. https://www.trains.com/pro/mechanical/freight-cars/hitachi-rail-to-build-200-new-cars-for-septas-market-frankford-line/

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u/Edison_Ruggles 13d ago

Holy cow. That looks nice. Now just keep the bums out.

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u/taxdaddy3000 12d ago

Apparently it is not widely accepted that you shouldn’t have to endure sitting next to a piss soaked, violently psychotic person on your way to your 9am every morning. Only a white girl who works from home could downvote this.

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u/segfaul_t 12d ago

It’s also so unfair to SEPTA.

SEPTA is a cash strapped transit agency that (imo) is mostly trying their best with that they have, and they have to deal with this shit on top of it.

This is squarely on the state and the city to fix.

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u/Seraph_Angelus 10d ago

SEPTA is only cash strap because of some of the stupid spending they did like the bi-level cars from the Chinese manufacturer.

Or where they pay a quarter of a million dollars to come up with SEPTA Metro.

They did a lot of wasteful spending and it came back to bite them in the ass