Wednesday, September 10, 2003

MORE 104 PROBLEMS ... AGAIN Stop me if you've heard this one before... There are more problems with late running buses on the 104. Yesterday's 5:05pm to West Chester departed 69 St 10 minutes late. One would think that the schedule change would improve on-time performance. But no, that's not the case. And, to make things worse, it seems that the slowest operator from Red Arrow is now working 4241 block, meaning that one of the two late night buses coming in from West Chester will always be running 10-15 minutes late. And there's still no PM express service from West Chester, hence the same overcrowding continues on inbound buses from West Chester during the PM peak. Here we go again...

BROAD ST LINE SETS RECORD Nearly 12,000 Iggles fans travelled to the Linc via the Broad St Subway, exceeding last year's totals for the Monday Night Football game against the New York football giants. Now, if Andy Reid can interrupt his cheesesteak dinner to actually develop a game plan that doesn't look like something that the Strath Haven football team can figure out, then maybe next week's game against New England will have a better result.

The 12,000 passengers could increase by a few more if SEPTA could actually add extra buses on some bus routes operating from Bridge-Pratt and 69 St which end service after the game, but that would be asking too much...

DANGER ZONE IN ANGORA It appears that for the second time in three days, bullets struck a SEPTA bus at 58 St/Baltimore Av. On Sunday, one man was shot to death on 58 St south of Baltimore. The incident occured at 2:54pm, when shots were fired in the area. Bullets struck both a SEPTA bus and a taxi. On Tuesday, the curb side windshield on 3346, working as a northbound G to Overbrook (7696 block), suffered damage, as a small hole which appeared to come from a bullet (that had not been confirmed) was seen in the bottom of the windshield near the front door. There was no other indication that it was a shooting, but considering what had happened 48 hours earlier, nothing could be ruled out.

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