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Originally Posted by TechTalkGuy
 SEPTA took over the PTC (Philadelphia Transit Company (I believe)).
Perhaps it's time for a new transit authority.
The MTA in NYC is the model of perfection.
I'd like to see that happen. |
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Other than its
$34 billion in debt, maybe.
MTA and RTA (Chicago) are the two large examples of regional transit authorities with taxation powers, something that SEPTA does not have. The various transit modes in those respective cities are effectively subsidiaries of the larger transit authority whereas SEPTA oversees and operates everything under one inefficient umbrella.
This is not to put one system up at the expense of another but MTA is as wholly dysfunctional as SEPTA or virtually any other big city transit agency. The fact that they operate in New York City gives them no special dispensation.