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WhyNotKenGaburo t1_jc0mcec wrote

Reply to yooooooooooooo it finally happened 😂 by sandwichpepe

Having SEPTA police in the stations and walking through the train cars would really solve a lot of the problems that happen in the subway. If there isn't the personnel to place officers in both, just having a pair on the train would cut down on a lot of silliness. I can't understand why that's such an impossibility given that the system isn't that big.

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BureaucraticHotboi t1_jc0j1wm wrote

Reply to comment by IrishWave in yooooooooooooo it finally happened 😂 by sandwichpepe

They may have. But early in the pandemic the septa drivers union lost a number of people because they were just getting rampantly exposed to Covid. I notice a lot like maybe 50% of bud and trolley drivers still wear masks. Many of them were still down to enforce it on their rides because they lost friends/felt especially exposed.

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BureaucraticHotboi t1_jc0iifl wrote

Reply to comment by Ng3me in yooooooooooooo it finally happened 😂 by sandwichpepe

Yep! I take the bus from south to my job downtown almost every day. It’s relatively reliable and tho the sub is like two more blocks, and the bus gets snarled in traffic, it’s so much more orderly. Old dude got on with a big speaker in his cart playing soul music. Honestly it wasn’t even a bother cuz the music was good. But the bus driver stopped after two blocks with him playing it and was like “shut it off til you get off or you’re walking” and he did. Also in the days of mask mandates, we had a guy get on who didn’t want to put it on. Bus driver yelled at him and stopped. Everyone else just started screaming like “yo we don’t want to wear these either but we need to get to work dickhead” and he dropped whatever point he was tryna make real quick and took a mask from someone else

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