I HATE SEPTA!!!!

OK, so this has nothing to do with the wedding or even Marcin, I just needed a venue to vent.  My commute from Philly to SAP in Newtown Square usually takes about 50 minutes door to door.  I got into my car this morning at 8:00 on the dot on Wallace Street, 2 blocks north of our apartment on Green St.  (I have included a map below so you can feel my pain along with me!)  Now I will admit, 8:00am is leaving a little late for me, so I expected it to take a little bit longer than usual.  I pull out my parking spot and make it a block and a half where I am stopped for 10 minutes while all the parents drop off their kids to school because the kids can't take public transportation!!!  Ok, light is green and I make it cross Spring Garden where I SIT FOR 40 MINUTES between callowhill and vine street.  That is only 1 block apart from each other!!!!  There city police directing traffic, but of course the block I am on, we have the cop who doesnt know how to direct traffic.  He kept having cars already on Vine Street block 15th street when the light turned green!  Oh and the city has a HUGE PROBLEM with syncing their lights.  I have complained about this to Marcin for as long as we have been dating - when one light turns green and you think you will make it a couple blocks, the light on the next block turns red - someone really needs to look into this when the strike is over. 

My commute went from 50 minutes to an hour and a half.  This article explains the misery the entire city is feeling.

Can someone explain to me why SEPTA employees are being so selfish in this economy???  Can't they be happy they have a job at all?  I heard Ed Rendell on the news the other night saying they offered the union a 10% increase in thier pensions and they turned it down!  Even Ed Rendell said, whose pensions are being increased these days???

They better hurry up and fix this!  At least I have a car and am driving out of the city; I can't even imagine what it's like for the people who use public transportation everyday.  Marcin said all of the parking garages downtown were full - he almost didnt have a place to park!

Ok, I'm done - thanks for listening :)