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Nothing Like a Classic SEPTA Shit Show Right Before an Eagles Playoff Game
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A reader sent over these photos from Sunday afternoon. About an hour before the Eagles/Packers game, the Broad Street Line went out of service, and a ton of Birds fans had to exit the City Hall stop and get down to the stadium complex a different way:
According to reader, fans started filing out around 3:45 p.m. Reader says they stood around for 20 minutes before an announcement was made, telling riders that the line is no longer running and that shuttle buses would be used instead. “They never told us what happened, I saw some things on SEPTA Social saying signal troubles, whatever it was, thousands of people were stranded with mere minutes before the game starts because once again, SEPTA can’t get their shit together.”
Reader decided to Uber it down to the stadium complex and got there with about 10 minutes to spare.
Kind of ironic that this happened on the same day the Sixers pivoted off Market Street and decided to stay in South Philly with Comcast. They would have had 7 years to get Jefferson in shape and fix SEPTA up to the point where trains could run fans down to Center City, but seeing as though the Broad Street Line is the still the occasional disaster, maybe a bullet was dodged.
Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com