The Inquirer’s Paul Nussbaum is currently tweeting photos of elected officials and SEPTA executives congregating in advance of what appears to be an imminent announcement of a contract agreement. More as it comes over series the tubes.
Monthly Archives: October 2014
SEPTA/TWU Strike Kremlinology
The steady drip, drip, drip of signs and portents leaking out of this week’s round of negotiations between SEPTA and its biggest union have finally ended in a press conference that fills me with despair for entirely non-strike-related reasons. The key bit is this: There will not be a strike next Monday. Election Day on …
City Branch Transit: the Transit Equity Express
Ryan Briggs wrote a story last week in Next City about the status of the City Branch, the ex-Reading legacy trench/tunnel stretching along Callowhill Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. His article was an excellent summary of the state of play, between those who would see the City Branch as part of a linear park that would …
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An open letter to City Council, concerning MonkeyParking
To the Honorable Seventeen Paintmunching Knaves, Long May You Reign. It has come to our attention that one among you, the Honorable William Greenlee (D-At Large), who has done the previously-thought impossible and distinguished himself from your ranks by his sheer dumbfuckery, has discovered the internet sufficiently to have heard of MonkeyParking. MonkeyParking is a …
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Strike update: TWU signals no strike Monday, will play the uncertainty game
WHYY/Newsworks is reporting that TWU Local 234 will not strike against SEPTA immediately after its strike authorization vote on Sunday. Union local president Willie Brown will instead launch TWU’s PR campaign at a press conference Monday afternoon, attempting to convince a skeptical public why TWU is justified in walking off the job for the first …
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STRIKE WARNING: SEPTA City and Suburban Transit Divisions (TWU 234)
After working without a contract since April, Transport Workers Union Local 234 has called a strike authorization vote for 3:00 PM this Sunday, October 26th. If it passes, and there is no reason to suspect that it will not, a strike may occur at any time afterwards. This will be the first TWU 234 strike since …
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Platform Screen Doors NOW
The new hotness today comes from the unlikely place of the office of City Councillor David Oh (R-At Large), who told free-tabloid Metro yesterday that South Korean company TIS Inc. wants to install platform screen doors on the Market-Frankford and Broad Street Lines. Platform screen doors (PSDs) are an old and mature safety technology in Asia and …
Places where SEPTA Regional Rail shares track with freight
Commenter Tsuyoshi asked, “Are there any [SEPTA Regional Rail tracks] shared with freight? That’s a bit of an involved question, but the short answer is: “yes, quite a few”. As asked, the real answer is that all of the Regional Rail network could be used for any potential freight customer on-line, and virtually every line …
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A Note on the Importance of Frequency in Regional Transit
Originally posted on Itinerant Urbanist:
Apologies for the long periods between posts. I’ve been caught up with school, work, and the Jewish holidays, so time for blogging has been infrequent. That being said, here’s a short post on something that caught my eye as I was doing research for a paper. Anyone interested in planning,…
The Blog is Back! What happened while we were gone?
Oh, yes, right. Some technical problems related to a self-destructing laptop took down posting access to the blog, but they’re fixed now, and hopefully will never return. (Also: SHINY new laptop.) I hope I was able to keep those of you who follow me on Twitter informed, or at least amused in the interim. And …
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