Our webmaster wrote about this inicident on his blog, but notes that there is no media coverage and this lasted for quite a while. Here is what Doug has to say as of 9:21 pm October 1st:

SEPTA decided to close Market East Station at 7 PM tonight for "police activity". This stranded myself and several thousand commuters both in the city, and in trains on their way to the city. Market East was completely evacuated. At the time I spoke to a SEPTA employee at Suburban Station around 8 PM, he stated that they were waiting on the "all clear" from the police before they could re-open the station.

Despite what the employee told me in the customer service office, he was almost immediately contradicted by a female employee there who stated that it was a "bomb scare" to another passenger....A crowd of commuters gather at the closed station. SEPTA really dropped the ball here. They had NO signage or personal on hand. There were a few police officers inside of the station that were completely unhelpful in answering queries from stranded passengers. No announcements were made over the PA at Market East nor Suburban Station. Basically, we were left in the dark as to why the station was closed....I eventually got home with the help of a subway, light rail, and a 1.5 mile walk across town.

Just to underscore my comments above, I'm no security expert--there may have been a very good reason for closing down Market East. SEPTA themselves may have not even had a say in the matter, they might have just been told to close the station by police. What SEPTA could control is how they reacted to this crisis. They could have made announcements. They could have made signs. They could have put notices on the train status boards. And they could have drawn up some emergency action plan in advance, that provided alternate subway/rail/bus paths for passengers to take to their destination.

Did I mention I'm paying $116/month for this? You're doing a heck of a job, SEPTA.

Oh! Did we mention that Septa and Amtrak and PennDot will be at a transit summit in Ardmore this evening?

Here are the details:

Thursday, October 2, 2008
WHAT: Congressman Gerlach’s Main Line Transit Summit
WHEN: 7 P.M. to 9 P.M.

WHERE: Lower Merion Township Building

75 East Lancaster Avenue
Ardmore PA

TENTATIVE AGENDA:
7 P.M. Sign-in period and chance to get materials from AMTRAK, SEPTA and PennDOT

7:15 P.M. Welcome and opening remarks

7:25 P.M. Presentation by SEPTA

7:40 P.M. Presentation by AMTRAK

7:55 P.M. Presentation by PennDOT

8:10 P.M. Question-and-Answer Session

8:55 P.M. Closing remarks

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So we have, as you all know, the best, coolest, nicest webmaster ever. Well, apparently, SEPTA, which can't tie its own shoes, get the smell of urine out of most of the train stations, let alone stop sitting on their hands long enough to rebuild the Ardmore Train Station with that $6 Million Gerlach got more than a year ago, but they can harass one person taking a photograph of an Ikea Billboard by basically saying it violates the The Patriot Act.

As we contemplate this latest SEPTA stunt, we have to say most delicately, that this is, as they say in the vernacular, crap....

Here's what our webmaster had to say (and he's waiting for a formal answer from SEPTA that we're interested in as well) in his own words:

SEPTA, and the "war on terror"
So, I took this picture at Market East Station in Philly tonight (SAC interjection: it's the IKEA billboard).I was going to make some snide remarks about how IKEA is really just a front for Furniture Porn, but then something interesting happened at the station.

A "service manager" approached me, and wanted to know what I was taking pictures of. So I told him. Rather than go back to his desk and look at some hot chair-on-chair action, he proceeded to tell me how I am not allowed to take pictures of the trains or the engineers. (Apparently conductors are fair game, though. Sucks to be them!)

This is just abusurd.

Searching for "septa trains" on Google Images gives 153 matches, most of them rather high resolution, too. If I were a terrorist, would I really have have to spend the time to take pictures when there are so many readily available?

....So SEPTA, we have to ask: every time some camera guy from a local T.V. station goes into 30th Street Station to film delayed trains or something, that means when they film and we see it "Live At 11", that they are violating the Patriot Act as well, right??? Fair is fair, and if the newspapers and television folks are allowed to film and photograph, it really can't be construed that our webmaster was violating the Patriot Act by photgraphing an Ikea Billboard can it??? Just askin', but we all know we won't get an answer...that would require to many layers and levels of useless, paper pushing management to achieve.

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