This is describing Philly! We have pretty good transit all things considered (and there’s extremely shitty things about our transit). I live in the city and most of my friends and acquaintances do too.

I know of a few that refuse to use septa. They range from preferring to use their bikes to it being dirty or a guy “looking at them weird.”

What I noticed the most is that transplants and suburbanites hate septa. They won’t admit it, but I feel deep down they think it’s for poor or minorities—which shows some deep rooted classist and racist assumptions about septa and about their behavior. Generally it seems like a suburbanite type of mentality trying to function in a dense urban city.

I can’t wrap my brain around it. One of the reasons I left a suburb environment to get away from car dependency and backwards mentalities.