SEPTA replaces sitting benches with 'leaners,' upsets some riders
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The seatless rails replaced around 25 benches to improve foot traffic flow and promote social distancing, SEPTA says

While they were installed last October, not many riders noticed them since they arrived mid-pandemic when ridership was at an all-time low. Now, as more riders have returned, they have criticized SEPTA for replacing sitting benches with standing ones...

Busch said there were several factors that led SEPTA to install the leaning benches, including improving foot traffic flow, making the stations easier to clean and promoting social distancing...

Internal documents obtained by VICE allegedly suggest that the transit agency also was possibly motivated by deterring people experiencing homelessness from sleeping on benches.

  • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    How do you expect homeless people to "pick themselves up" and "contribute to society" when you hate them so much you won't even let them sleep? So much for a free country.

    If you can't be there for the people that need it the most, you've failed the most basic purpose of a societal system. A system that can't bring out the best in its people and can't see the potential that every life has is doomed to fail.