General Manager Joseph M. Casey said "the largest construction project in SEPTA history" required $740 million, 84 community meetings, 206 El progress reports distributed door-to-door, and 50 Market Street cleanups that disposed of 50 tons of trash.

But the neighborhood crowd at the Enterprise Center on 46th Street near Market - a one-stop resource center for minority entrepreneurs - reserved its loudest cheers for SEPTA Assistant GM Frances M. Jones, who pointed to 10 years of project photos on the walls and said, "It is OVER!"

• 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.

I wonder if you can answer this question. Why was the El shut down [on Friday] between 30th & 40th Streets? It happened around 12:30. Shuttles were sent after the crowd waited over 30 minutes above ground at 40th Street. That is, a single shuttle bus arrived, immediately filled, and then drove away leaving 15 minutes to pass before the scene reenacted itself. We decided to just walk to 30th Street and board Eastbound there; the ticket booth operator was kind enough to let us go through the turnstile without paying another fare.

I made a deal with my son during spring break – if he could keep his cool, he would earn a trip. My son loves trains and public transportation, particularly SEPTA’s Market-Frankford line. Once, we spent an afternoon at the Frankford Terminal, he with his trusty digital video camera in hand, shooting footage of the elevated train and various buses leaving the station (he also loves taking the bus).