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Eddie Broccolo knows SEPTA. And if you don’t believe that, just ask him.

As a SEPTA Station Manager, Elizabeth “Betty” Anderson uses her people and organizational skills to oversee cashiers and carry out a variety of administrative duties. But she pulls on a different skill-set to manage another group of people – fans using SEPTA to get to-and-from games, concerts and other big events at the Sports Complex in South Philadelphia. “I’m almost like a mother,” Anderson said, adding that her nursing background probably also helps in what is sometimes a caretaker-type role.

A year ago February, a call comes out of the blue from a producer at National Geographic Channel expressing an interest in filming an hour-long TV show about the goings-on in SEPTA maintenance shops, subway tunnels and other behind the scene areas the public never sees. Turns out, National Geographic had asked a couple of other large transit agencies and had been turned down flat; potential legal problems, liability problems, labor problems – too much of a hassle. But we thought about it.

As the Assistant General Manager (AGM) of Operations, one would assume that Luther Diggs had developed a master plan to secure the top spot in SEPTA’s Operations Division. However, according to him, he didn’t follow any calculated moves

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Luther Diggs Knows Operations – Down to the Nuts and Bolts

For most, it would be an extraordinary act – and one they’d rather let someone else handle. For veteran bus operator John Fluellen, it was a matter of simply reacting, following his instincts and heeding what experience has taught him.

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Hero Operator Lauded For Crash Rescue

Citizen group's ballot question sparks some controversy Norristown Times Herald Concerned about proposed SEPTA parking garages in Jenkintown and Wyncote, about 3000 registered township voters, who became known as We the People of …

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Citizen group’s ballot question sparks some controversy – Norristown Times Herald

Philadelphia Transit Talks Continue Saturday As World Series Looms WIBW Should the union call a work stoppage, ” SEPTA is fully prepared with an alternate service plan for our customers,” it said. But, it acknowledged, “There may …

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Philadelphia Transit Talks Continue Saturday As World Series Looms – WIBW

Train ride is a bit of history Delaware County Daily Times MORTON — People at SEPTA's R-3 station Saturday morning knew it wasn't going to be an ordinary train trip when they saw Mario Cimino, …

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Train ride is a bit of history – Delaware County Daily Times