I completely agree with you about the PR problem SEPTA definitely has its issues, but I have never lived in a city where people in the burbs are as fearful of public transit as people in the Philly burbs.

I really like taking SEPTA. Admittedly I almost exclusively take the bus and rarely the train, and the train is pretty obviously where most of the unpleasant experiences happen, but sitting on the 9 or 27 and reading or dozing off is definitely preferable to sitting in traffic on 76 and driving around looking for parking in the city.

The only ones that look anywhere close to passable are the Cubs and Brewers. And those still look bad, just not “what the fuck were they thinking?” bad.

There HAVE to have been some people in the design pipeline who were just thinking “Oh man they’re actually letting us get away with this!?” the whole time