WINTER'S LAST BLAST Most of the SEPTA region was not affected by yesterday's snow storm, however service on the 55 was cut back to Willow Grove due to poor road conditions along PA 611 in Central Bucks. The storm also caused an accident near Trenton as a SEPTA vehicle slid off Bear Tavern Rd near the Trenton-Mercer County Airport in Ewing Township, in the general vicinity of the West Trenton Rail Station on the R3 line. The location of the accident tends to indicate that this was a T-Car from the Regional Rail Division rather than a Route 127 bus, since the 127 operates within the City of Trenton. While en route, the Trenton Times reports that a SEPTA supervisor and a Ewing Township EMT were slightly injured after being struck by a Mercer County Sheriff's Office vehicle while at the accident scene. There was also a report of a water main break in Fox Chase, forcing the 18 and 24 to operate on diversion routing during the PM peak. But, for the most part, the storm had minimal impact on SEPTA operations - at least that's what we were told in the press...

NIGHTMARE ON BROAD STREET With the Phillies hosting the (hey, didn't you used to be the) Atlanta Braves at the Vet, the Sixers taking on the Ben Wallace-less Detroit Pistons (good for Sixers fans, bad if you have Wallace in your fantasy NBA league, and great if you live in the Coatesville area - home of Pistons forward Richard Hamilton) at the Whatisitcalledtoday Center, and some has been band called Def Leppard (they were going out of style when I was in high school - and that was 10 years ago) playing at the Spectrum, you can expect a massive crush of people on the Broad Street Line starting at around 5:30pm. Hopefully, SEPTA will add enough express trains to Pattison to accomodate the crowds. I would also expect that the turnstile problems that wreaked havoc on Sunday will have been corrected by now...