SEPTA Gets $1.2 Million EPA Grant
SEPTA announced this morning that the Environmental Protection Agency is forwarding them $1.2 million to install new technology onto a 1950s-era locomotive that will reduce diesel emissions. The EPA-funded project will help SEPTA repower the engine of a conventional diesel maintenance locomotive with two generator sets (“GenSet”), and a diesel particulate...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Are You Ready to Occupy Eric Cantor?
New Occupy Philly fun: GOP House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is coming to the Wharton School on Friday. Occupy Philly says they’ll be there, and MSNBC host Ed Schultz (that guy who sort of looks like Rush Limbaugh, but isn’t actually him) says he supports their doing so. The event is called the Occupy Eric Cantor March. And it makes sense that this would...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Support for Occupy Movement Grows
A new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll finds Americans now support the Occupy movement more—much more, actually—than the Tea Party. Thirty-seven percent of Americans are in favor of the protests, while 18 percent are opposed. By contrast, 28 percent of Americans favor the Tea Party, while 41 percent are opposed. On yet the third, monster hand, support for the...
Continue ReadingEver Wonder How To Use SEPTA Regional Rail?
That’s not a trick question. SEPTA knows how getting on a train, buying tickets, sitting, all that stuff, can be tricky. Problem solved: They’ve uploaded a series of videos to YouTube, called SEPTA InMotion, explaining just that! “A Video Program for Customers,” InMotion “aims to provide a new level of Customer Service to the people who travel,...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Vince Fumo Will Be Re-Sentenced, Haz a Sad
A bearded, tired, depressed, overweight, retired former Sen. Vince Fumo is scheduled to be re-sentenced on November 9 for his part in defrauding, well, just about everyone. Prosecutors are looking to elongate his 4-and-a-half year sentence due to more than $1.5 million in losses “and other mistakes” in calculating Fumo’s original sentence. If it turns out...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Making English the Official State Language Would Make Joey Vento’s Ghost Smile
The ghost of Joey Vento called. He’s doing good. Oh, he asked that if the state House could get around to it, could they make English the official language of Pennsylvania? (Because, why not? America, right?) If only, he said, there were two wingnut lawmakers out in Harrisburg who would write bills requiring all state documents—including all tourism docs—to...
Continue ReadingFox Chase SEPTA Station Earns LEED Certification—But is That a Good Thing?
It’s not the best time to be all “Green jobs!” right now, what with Solyndra, that solar energy company in Northern California which had taken a $535 million loan from the Obama Administration going bankrupt (and the right wing fantasy that this will bring down the entire Obama Administration!) but then there’s SEPTA. They’re talking up the recently-renovated...
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RAGE Confronts SEPTA at Downtown Headquarters
Members of Philly Riders Against Gender Exclusion (RAGE) descended upon 1234 Market Street Thursday morning to give SEPTA a little talking to. See, it’s been two years, they say, since SEPTA General Manager Joe Casey told them the problem of “Male” and “Female” identification stickers on weekly and monthly transpasses would soon be solved. And, well,...
Continue ReadingSEPTA Service Update for Thursday, Sept. 8
Keep that road rage in check, people! Here’s the latest from SEPTA. Hey, at least they’re not on strike! Regional Rail: Flood-related damage has forced the suspension of the following Regional Rail lines: Lansdale/Doylestown West Trenton Warminster Manayunk/Norristown Chestnut Hill West Cynwyd These lines are expected to resume at the...
Continue ReadingDAILY GRINDER: Assaults on SEPTA Employees Double
The shooting of SEPTA bus driver Bernetta V. Rambert was the 46th assault of a SEPTA employee this year—more than double from last year’s 20. In light of that, State Sen. Christine Tartaglione has sponsored a bill that would add transit employees to protected workers, like police officers and firefighters, upgrading assaults on them to “aggravated assault”...
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