Well good morning all! It's a beautiful day outside, so you have no excuse not to vote today, right? Unless of course you count on Septa to get where you're going, but I will get to that in a sec.
In Radnor, it's a brave new world out there - hopefully people will have enough sense to take advantage of it and tune out the noise of some who offer nothing, yet criticize everything?
I look at this way, the Lisa Paolinos of this world stick around so long because we allow it - I give her a mention on election day since she so seems to have tried to pathetically pimp her wedding to this blog. If someone sees her at the polls today and she brings #3, make sure he's really registered to vote OK? And I guess that is one of the largest issues in Radnor - people voting who shouldn't be. I hope this year people call the appropriate parties this election and not just talk about it after the fact. And seriously, what is up with Camp Mimi and their creative writing attempts in politically motivated junk mail? Call it what it is, John --- bullshit. But again, what do we expect? It's always the same old Delco song and dance.
In other news, those losers at Septa have struck. Oh yeah Rendell, good job. Oh yeah Nutter, good job. If Septa didn't suck so much I would say give them a raise, but hey, what do we get for out money? Not much when you look at transit systems in other parts of the country. Those greedy bastards at Septa should be glad for the jobs they have in this economy. Sorry but I don't feel so sorry for them.
Tue, Nov. 3, 2009
SEPTA workers strike; thousands caught off guard
By Robert Moran and Melissa Dribben
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Hundreds of thousands of commuters scrambled this morning to find a way to work or school after SEPTA's largest union staged a surprise pre-dawn strike, shutting down down all subway, bus and trolley service in the city.
The walkout by Transport Workers Union Local 243, which began at 3 a.m. and caught commuters off guard, also affected Frontier Division buses in Bucks, Montgomery, and Chester counties.
But Regional Rail, Paratransit and other services outside the city continued to run.
With Philadelphia Public School students off today for a teachers' in-service, the city should be spared the full impact of the strike until tomorrow.
As the first glimmer of dawn broke this morning, striking SEPTA workers huddled in small clusters around the Frankford Transportation Center as would-be passengers continued to arrive with no idea that nothing was operating.
Colleen Logan, 45, showed up at 5:20 a.m. to discover that she would not be able to ride the Market-Franford El to her job as a waitress at Snow White Restaurant in Old City.
"Yesterday it was supposed to be done and over with," Logan said. "Nobody really had a clue."
Logan said she feared that if the work stoppage drags on, she will be out of a job.
"They get paid well," she said of picketers. "They get enough benefits. What more do they want?"
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Today, a rail inspector was killed by a train that had been diverted to a different track than usual. The SEPTA union has blood on its hands now.
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