Trains only run if there are riders.

We need more SEPTA riders.
We need more SEPTA voters.

And the most effective and sustainable way to create SEPTA riders and voters is to let more people live near SEPTA stations.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 + 🏘 = 🚉

@septaphilly.bsky.social

@septaphilly.bsky.social

SEPTA is in crisis.

State funding will help staunch the bleeding – but going forward we need to work together, at all levels, to build a more frequent, reliable, sustainable, stronger SEPTA:

✅ Stable, recurring state funding
✅ Expanded local funding
✅ More people living and working near SEPTA

We must save SEPTA
We must fund SEPTA
We must strengthen SEPTA

The budget crisis is Day 1.
It's rushing SEPTA to the ER.

But we can't stop there.
It isn't enough to just survive.

We need a bigger, stronger, healthier SEPTA.

Housing is a policy choice.

If we choose not to build housing, we are complicit in a crisis that will alienate working & middle-class families.

If we choose not to build housing, we will push people to move to conservative states, and watch them gain key advantage in House & presidential elections

Can't stress enough: socio-economic segregation was a policy goal, not an accident, of U.S. zoning.

Here's what a founding father of U.S. zoning

- who consulted with NYC (1916 ord), Atlanta, Boston, Denver, Dallas, Providence, Columbus, & others -

had to say at 1921 national planning conference:

Haven't seen that much reporting on this yet but it's pretty wild that the president can apparently just direct the DOJ to send letters to two big corporations telling them they can just go ahead and break federal law.

Events like the Eagles Parade are unique opportunities to showcase what SEPTA could be with frequent, reliable service --

-- but instead will feature infrequent trains that skip most stations. At a time when we're trying to demonstrate the system's value to the state.

Huge missed opportunity.