“The Weight of Tradition”: A history of SEPTA’s formation October 2, 2006
Posted by crd2 in History of SEPTA, SEPTA, transit, transit policy.1 comment so far
Everyone is down on SEPTA but no one has ever considered the difficulty of melding various independent private transit systems into a cohesive whole. From a “long view” of SEPTA one can truly say they are “Serious About Change.”
This is precisely what I argue in this paper: a history of SEPTA’s bureaucratic formation from roughly 1958 to 1983. I urge transit buffs, Philadelphia historians, ex-PRR, RDG, and SEPTA officials to comment.
