A SEPTA was worker was hit by the West Trenton train this morning at 8:00 morning.
Below is the full story from the Philadelphia Inquirer:
Track fatality disrupts 3 regional rail lines
By Peter Mucha
Inquirer Staff Writer
A man was fatally struck by a West Trenton train this morning, causing service to be suspended on several regional rail lines.
Trains were not running north of the Fern Rock regional rail station on the Warminster (R2), West Trenton (R3) and Lansdale/Doylestown (R5) lines.
"Everything from Fern Rock into the city is operating," said SEPTA spokesman Gary Fairfax.
The victim, a male, was struck about 8:30 a.m. by a southbound R3 West Trenton train near the Philadelphia-Montgomery County border, just south of the Melrose Park station, he said.
He declined to share other details, such as the victim's age, or confirm reports that the victim was a SEPTA worker.
Police said an initial report indicated he was a track inspector.
Yesterday, a fire forced the evacuation of about 500 passengers from a train on the R5-Paoli line. No one was injured, but service on the line was suspended for two hours.
Flames broke out in the first of four cars as the train was leaving the Overbrook Station at about 7 a.m. Passengers had already been moved to other cars because of a burning smell.
Contact staff writer Peter Mucha at 215-854-4342 or pmucha@phillynews.com.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Temple Tries to Help Students During SEPTA Strike
Professor Culver of Media Management and Organization offered to give a ride to students who normally rely on SEPTA transportation. In addition, students have been sending mass emails offering to carpool to Temple University.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Many in the Philadelphia community believe that Septa workers are "overreaching" with their demands, but who is to say whether the inconvenience of the strike has had an influence on their opinions.
SEPTA strike leaves Center city workers unemployed.
Center city worker, Donte Degree, is currently unemployed due to the fact that SEPTA is striking. He resides in North Philadelphia, and has absolutely no means of traveling to work on 17th and Chestnut streets. He will have to wait until the strike is over to return to work.
Temple Students Let Off Steam At SEPTA On Social Networking Sites
By Andrew Small
PHILADELPHIA-While Temple uses the internet to provide students with a place to organize rides to class during the SEPTA strike, students used social networking sites to vent about their inconveniences.
Though talks between SEPTA's Willie Brown and Mayor Michael Nutter have met a standstill with Brown asking for Nutter to be "cut out" of the conversation, students continued to discuss the situation in a civil, but unrestrained discourse.
Temple linguistics major Elizabeth Brophy posted "It's ridiculous that this is under debate: SEPTA stations and vehicles are in terrible condition, customer service is nonexistent, and the labor is semi-skilled at best. That union leaders would take advantage of every paying rider in the city, just to ensure their own well-being, is disgusting on an ethical level. I say fire them all and just start over, this is pathetic," and sparked a debate with other students about."
Brophy continued "the whole point of being a for-profit company was to not piss off your customer base. I'm really disgusted by this whole thing, I think it really shows the downsides of union labor - they promote the exact same greed and corruption as any other economic industry except there's no competition. Ridiculous, since we pay a percentage of their wages through taxes."
Temple political science student Zack Groff corrected Brophy, "SEPTA isn't for-profit. The whole reason that it never gets the right funding is because it's appropriation by legislature. Also, it would be a mistake to condemn the union for the mismanagement of negotiations, in my opinion anyways. It sounds like you guys haven't been able to talk to a human being that's being effected on the other side of the exchange. Think about it: it's not like the union wants to go on strike in a pseudo-masturbatory exhibition of power over the denizens of Philadelphia. Of course, our politicians (even the "pro-union" liberal ones, of whom I am really not a fan) and media (that penultimate failure of American society) would have us believe that the union is constituted of greedy bums and morons."
SEPTA received $182,874,099 in government grants in 2009 according to recovery.gov.
Andrew Small can be contacted at turboverbal@hotmail.com
PHILADELPHIA-While Temple uses the internet to provide students with a place to organize rides to class during the SEPTA strike, students used social networking sites to vent about their inconveniences.
Though talks between SEPTA's Willie Brown and Mayor Michael Nutter have met a standstill with Brown asking for Nutter to be "cut out" of the conversation, students continued to discuss the situation in a civil, but unrestrained discourse.
Temple linguistics major Elizabeth Brophy posted "It's ridiculous that this is under debate: SEPTA stations and vehicles are in terrible condition, customer service is nonexistent, and the labor is semi-skilled at best. That union leaders would take advantage of every paying rider in the city, just to ensure their own well-being, is disgusting on an ethical level. I say fire them all and just start over, this is pathetic," and sparked a debate with other students about."
Brophy continued "the whole point of being a for-profit company was to not piss off your customer base. I'm really disgusted by this whole thing, I think it really shows the downsides of union labor - they promote the exact same greed and corruption as any other economic industry except there's no competition. Ridiculous, since we pay a percentage of their wages through taxes."
Temple political science student Zack Groff corrected Brophy, "SEPTA isn't for-profit. The whole reason that it never gets the right funding is because it's appropriation by legislature. Also, it would be a mistake to condemn the union for the mismanagement of negotiations, in my opinion anyways. It sounds like you guys haven't been able to talk to a human being that's being effected on the other side of the exchange. Think about it: it's not like the union wants to go on strike in a pseudo-masturbatory exhibition of power over the denizens of Philadelphia. Of course, our politicians (even the "pro-union" liberal ones, of whom I am really not a fan) and media (that penultimate failure of American society) would have us believe that the union is constituted of greedy bums and morons."
SEPTA received $182,874,099 in government grants in 2009 according to recovery.gov.
Andrew Small can be contacted at turboverbal@hotmail.com
I had the pleasure of experiencing the SEPTA stike today. This morning I was waiting for my train to take me to Temple so I could attend this journalism class. I figured it might be a bit late since they have to pick up more people than normal because of the strike. Unfortunatly for me and about 20 other people, I was stuck waiting for over an hour which caused me to miss class. While I was waiting I got to listen to what other people were missing during their wait. One guy was late for court which is never good, one student had a project to turn and and a couple people acutally left to find another way to get where they were going. I am just glad that the train is still running during the strike or I would be missing a lot more classes than just one so far.
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