FAREWELL TO THE VET ... AND GOOD RIDDANCE TO THE 03 PHILS! As expected, a large crowd attended the Phils swan song/disappearing act at the Vet this afternoon. As you can also expect, reports that the lower level at Pattison Station would be in use today turned out to be false (surprise, surprise). After the closing ceremonies at the Vet, a large crowd waited at the platform as a grand total of ... 2 trains were in the station, with an express pulling out and the local train parked with its doors closed. And, as you'd expect from the liars at SEPTA, the lower level sat unused. When I asked a whiteshirt (SEPTA-speak for "service manager") about the lower level, all I got was a ton of attitude. Let's just say that it was appropriate that he was assigned to Pattison, since he is about as overpaid for his job as Jose Mess-up was as the Phils closer...

This is not surprising, since it seems virtually most management level people on the operations side seems to have an attitude problem and have no concept of professional courtesy when dealing with the public (case in point: Red Arrow managers at 69 St Terminal, who either know about delays and can't be bothered to explain the situation to irate passengers, or don't know what they're doing). There's no reason as to why at least 2 or 3 trainsets couldn't be stored on the lower level instead of deadheading trains to Fern Rock or Walnut-Locust. Wait, that would require something very unusual at SEPTA: managers doing some actual thinking...

On a brighter note, the Iggles did win today. Bring on Spurrier and the Skins!