A letter to the editor concerning SEPTA

Public Transportation is impossible in this city. Whether its the station smelling like stale pee, the subway smelling like weed because the kid right next to you decides that smoking a joint, blunt, or pipe on public transportation is ok, or you wait for almost an hour and a half for the only bus in the city that can get you home, or the rats on the Broad Street platform are the size Chiuahuahs, SEPTA is horrific. What makes matters even worse is that because I am a part of City Year and SEPTA gives us our trans-passes to us for free, it gives the green light to volunteer us corps members to clean up SEPTA stations and stops. Now if you think you have it bad try spending two hours mopping a subway station that is full of pigeon doo doo, homeless doo doo, garbage, weaves that are the length of Rhode Island, and goodness knows how many drug parafanalia....it is N-A-S-T-Y and I do it all for the sake of a free pass, and all in the name of giving back to the communities of Philadelphia. Nuts to that, there comes a time when I have to be selfish and refuse to give back, to not clean up doo doo, put down the mop and say #*%#!#!*&%$ you SEPTA!!!