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Jan

12

Shh! The Train Is Moving!

011209cashonlysepta.jpg You may have heard about SEPTA’s decision to create a “quiet car” test run on the R5; passengers will be prohibited from using cell phones in one car of the train on rush hour trains. They’ll also be asked not to talk ridiculously loudly to each other.

Anyway, today is the program’s launch! Woohoo! (I mean that in a completely theoretical sense. Not only do I not ride the R5, I would definitely not sit in the quiet car and miss out on hilarious overheard conversations. Plus, as Matthew Mitchell of something called the “Delaware Valley Association of Rail Passengers” says in that Inquirer article, “it’s not like the average peak-hour train is all that raucous.”)

If the program is successful, it’ll be expanded in March. The idea is that it will be largely self-policing program, as who the hell is going to intentionally sit in the one quiet car and then make a phone call, the main thing you’re not allowed to do in it. Hmm, I think I’d rather not make bets on that.

SEPTA to test “quiet cars” on rush-hour trains [Inquirer]
SEPTA stars “quiet car” [Inky/From The Source]
Image via SansPoint used under a Creative Commons License
 
dmac | 12:19 PM | 5 Comments
SEPTA, Quiet Car, R5, Regional Rail
 

May

19

SEPTA Riders Do Better Than SEPTA

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Since SEPTA hates its customers — a great Philadelphia tradition, I must add — a couple enterprising chaps got together and created iSepta, a little tool for planning trips on one’s iPhone or iPod touch.

The tool seems pretty neat — my iPod touch is on the fritz and needs to be sent to Apple to be fixed, shockingly — and should work pretty easily on any phone or similar browser which could use a pretty simple interface.

In the meantime, SEPTA will continue to tout its “happiness czar” as a sign of real progress.

iSepta
SEPTA riders to the rescue {SEPTA Watch]
 
dmac | 9:46 AM | 1 Comment
iSepta, Regional Rail, SEPTA