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Editorial: A call for equitable public transit

The Editorial Board September 10, 2025

Public transportation is a lifeline for thousands of Philadelphians, connecting communities with schools, work and essential services between the city itself and surrounding areas. Yet, SEPTA, as the public...

GRAPHIC: BLADIMIR LEMUS ’26/THE HAWK AND BELLA PRIVITERA ’26/THE HAWK

Public transportation changes leave community members distressed

Luke Sanelli ’26, Digital Content Editor September 10, 2025

Joseph Bergkoetter ’29 has used SEPTA to travel from his home in Northeast Philadelphia ever since he was a toddler. But the instability that affected his first-week commute, caused by cuts to SEPTA’s...

SEPTA's Overbrook Station (Photo by Luke Malanga '20).

Train tickets prove hard to find on campus

Rebecca Roque September 25, 2018

For the first few weeks of the fall semester, students who needed to purchase discount SEPTA tickets had to rely on word of mouth to know to get them from the office of Beth Hagovsky, director of Student...

Call me an uber

Call me an uber

Julia Fox February 7, 2017

Why SEPTA is too unreliable for college students “Get up, you’re going to miss your train!” was not the ideal start to my Saturday. I had gone home for a night and slept through my alarm, giving...

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