![]() ![]() Transit agencies are not designed to address social problems of this magnitude in the best of times, and the challenge is greater under the fiscal stress brought on by depressed ridership. “We had to harden the system, we had to close it down until people start coming back to work, and we were able to address this public health crisis,” said Ken Divers, assistant director of transportation at SEPTA and leader of the agency’s efforts to address the rise in anti-social behavior in the system. Report: Fewer Cops Can Make Transit Safer for All.Housing in Brief: Philadelphia Is Paying Landlords to House LGBTQ Youth.A New Kind of Safe Haven: ‘I See a Person Who Just Wants to Be Understood and Loved’.Disrupting the Pipeline That Channels Youth in Foster Care to Homelessness.SEPTA closed access points and cordoned off huge sectors of the underground. As commuter and tourist traffic vanished with the pandemic in 2020, people living on the streets increasingly used the tunnels as shelter. Dick “Kaʻa uila” Furstein January 24, 2022Ĭenter City’s rail stations are connected to a vast, and confusing, concourse system that runs beneath the heart of downtown Philadelphia. I have pressed the help button twice and been told the SEPTA Police are in route. The agency confirmed at least 10 riders have been trapped in the tunnels after walking through a one-way turnstile, only to find doors to the street barred and I have been locked in the exit to 15th Street station (16th & Market NE Corner) for 10 minutes. ![]() I ended up asking some homeless guys, hey, can you lead me out of here? Thank god, somebody took pity on me and led me out of the tunnels.”Įarnest is not alone. “I ended up having to do four or five times as much walking as I had anticipated. “When I got to the stop, all the obvious exits were closed,” Earnest remembered.
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