• "They never worked anyway," says Rep. Adolph, trying to justifying why he pulled the trolley gates that separated cars from trolleys in Delaware County.
• "SEPTA panders to suburban regional rail riders while ignoring bus & trolley riders," says a Daily News op-ed writer, in pushing for a rider's bill of rights.
• "Area bridges, including the one that takes the R5 over 52nd Street are falling down, falling down," says an Amtrak document uncovered by the Inquirer.
• "Charge 'em, already," say friends & family of Joseph McNair about the SEPTA cop who shot & killed him after a dispute in Montgomery County and who--so far--has not been criminally charged.
• "Give wheelchair users equal access," says U.S. District Judge Gene Pratter, in ordering SEPTA to install elevators in City Hall station.
• "You'll have to get by with buses for the next four months," says SEPTA to riders of the 102 as federal-stimulus-funded reconstruction begins.

You remember the 30s and 40s where everyone grew up on taking public transportation? My biggest dream is to get people back to that standpoint, so it’s not foreign for them to take the system, everyone knows how to take the system, and they utilize the system everyday. We seem to have a generation that sort of forgot transit for a while. They fell in love with the car. I need to bring those people back.

• Remember last year when the Commonwealth told SEPTA that it would be getting a dedicated funding stream in part due to a plan to toll I-80? That plan's run into some problems and SEPTA is now worried it's going to be $120 million short this fiscal year.
• Remember the senseless murder of Sean Conroy, the Starbucks manager who was jumped by a gang of teens at the 13th & Market El concourse? His alleged attackers are on trial this week. This past Tuesday, they jury went on a field trip to the scene of the crime.
• Remember the construction that was set to begin on the Spring Garden and Girard Street BSL stops? It's begun.
• Remember how on-board cameras caught that grisly hammer attack on the BSL? SEPTA's now installing cameras on the El, too.
• Remember your manners? SEPTA started a new poster campaign this week to encourage politeness and civility for riders.
• Remember Darby? The Darby Borough Historical & Preservation Society is squabbling with the Darby Historical Commission over what should go on the historical markers outside the new transit center. Somehow, SEPTA's gonna get blamed for all this.

• Monday morning, an SUV plowed into a bus at Kensington and Lehigh.
• Wednesday morning, the 102 trolley hit a pedestrian at Baltimore and Glenwood in Clifton Heights.

News of the robbery went out on the police radio and officers were stationed at every stop along the trolley route, said SEPTA spokeswoman Jerri Williams.

SEPTA Police Sgt. Don Wagner and SEPTA Officer James Hoback overheard the broadcast on a police scanner, so when the Route 101 pulled into the 69th Street Terminal, they were waiting.

"The two men initially attempted to run when they spotted their uniformed escorts, but they were immediately apprehended," Williams said in a statement.

A job offer was used as a lure to capture a man suspected in thefts from a Wilmington armored car company, Delaware State Police said.

Authorities suspected Andrew J. Oehrle, 23, Glenside, Pa., of stealing about $48,000 during several weeks in November from his former employer, Garda Cash Logistics. The armored car company collects cash deposits from area businesses.

Oehrle stopped showing up for work on Nov. 26 and, when asked to come in to be interviewed in reference to the thefts, said he had no time to return to Delaware because he had been hired by the SEPTA Transit Police, according to Delaware State Police, who later discovered that Oehrle had applied to the Transit Police but had not been hired.

After Delaware police obtained a warrant for Oehrle’s arrest and contacted SEPTA Police for assistance, Transit Police officers called Oehrle and asked him to come to their office in Philadelphia under the guise of being offered a job. When Oehrle arrived, he was arrested. He is currently being held in Philadelphia and awaiting extradition to Delaware on a charge of felony theft, state police said.

Every new SEPTA bus, for instance, is equipped with eight cameras, SEPTA spokesman Richard Maloney said. Many train cars are now equipped with 12 cameras, he said.

• And finally... ever get confused about how to put your bicycle on the bus racks? Check out this rap. It's for the Louisville, KY buses, but they look about the same as ours.