I've said it before and I'll say it again: If Philly improved public transportation, the entire city would rise up several notches. This city is not really conducive to having a car, and young people want to go out to bars and drink and not have to drive home or leave super-early to catch public transport where they will first have to wait in a urine-soaked tunnel with no SEPTA worker on duty; no police officer in sight; not even a camera to document when crime occurs. SEPTA is expensive, smelly and inconvenient. Last night I had a particularly harrowing experience with a psychotic person while waiting for the regional rail at an unlit stop without so much as an emergency phone in sight. I don't think the people who run the city or the people who run SEPTA understand that in other cities, young people actually take public transportation to get to social events. I have taken public transport many times in Boston, New York, San Francisco, D.C., and Seattle and Philly's is by far the most inefficient and the least pleasant experience. As the big wigs in charge continue to let SEPTA deteriorate, they are unwittingly driving people away from the city. Maybe they think they are just affecting us poor car-less individuals who have to use public transport, but they are actually affecting everyone's quality of life.