The escalators on the northwest corner of 15th & Market and the circular stairway underneath the ClothesPin are examples of conditions not normally seen outside of an impoverished ghetto. When I look at that glass and metal housing over the escalators, I am beyond disgusted. That space has been a pet peeve of mine forever and to find out there has been some agency or company making money on a cleaning contract is appalling.
However, when you have companies like Comcast nearby, it is not surprising. If we had civic minded men like Strawbridge around, those conditions would have been resolved somehow. He is the eminence gris who cleaned up East Market Street. Conditions like that require someone who cares enough and has enough juice to get things started. Sande Knight ----- Original Message ----- From: Frank<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: UnivCity@list.purple.com<mailto:UnivCity@list.purple.com> Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 4:00 PM Subject: Re: [UC] Clean? The SEPTA Concourses? You must be joking! [Was: An example of the potential for abuse Like this at 15th & Market? I wish I could email the odor! http://www.overheardinchat.com/oicpics/septa-001.jpg<http://www.overheardinchat.com/oicpics/septa-001.jpg> or this at 15th & Locust (Yes, they're human!): http://www.overheardinchat.com/oicpics/septa-002.jpg<http://www.overheardinchat.com/oicpics/septa-002.jpg> and the world's most inappropriate slogan: http://www.overheardinchat.com/oicpics/septa-003.jpg<http://www.overheardinchat.com/oicpics/septa-003.jpg> No they're not! Frank On May 26, 2007, at 01:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In a message dated 5/26/07 8:24:21 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The following, from today's Inquirer, is about the Center City District (CCD). It is another example of the potential for abuse by organizations such as UCD.....This article shows abuse in the form of putting a bunch of productively-employed workers -- about whose performance nobody seems to be complaining -- out of jobs based on a no-bid contract which the present people say they could have undercut if given the chance. Krigman Al, you're really stretching things again here! My husband read part of that article out loud to me this morning as we had breakfast. He read it because we were both stunned to find that there is a cleaning contract with SEPTA for its concourses. Have you ever *been* in the concourses? If so, have you ever seen them looking anywhere near *clean*? I love the trolleys and take them downtown every time I go. I walk in the concourses to get to the MSB building from 15th & Market, to get from Market St. back to the trolleys, and at various other points under and around City Hall. The concourses are absolutely filthy. Someone must pick up trash, because you don't see overflowing trash cans, but other than that, I can't even remotely imagine using the word "clean" to describe the conditions there. So if it were up to me to try to make a change, I surely wouldn't renew the contract of the current "cleaner." Lamond Melani ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com<http://www.aol.com/>.
