Episode 3: SEPTA Regional Rail Meltdown 1979-1992

Well There‘s Your Problem

WTYP is Justin Roczniak, November Kelly, Liam McAnderson, and friends.

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🗓️ 13 November 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Featuring the one and only American Pacer! Slides: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkWxbAoOK2o Today @aliceavizandum, @donoteat1, and @Landerson112358 talk about how what could have been the greatest public transit improvement in American history was completely bungled, due to mismanagement, lack of foresight, and union-busting.

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0:00.0	All right, everyone. Welcome to the third episode of, Well, There's Your Problem, which is a
0:08.1	podcast with slides about engineering disasters. I'm Justin Rosniac. Oh, we're going to do a
0:17.1	pronoun check this time. We didn't do that last time. Just to annoy people.
0:22.1	Also for inclusivity.
0:24.0	My pronouns are he-him.
0:27.0	And I'm, my screen names do not eat.
0:31.0	I also do YouTube videos as well as this.
0:34.0	Yeah, sure.
0:37.0	Liam Anderson, my pronouns are he, him.
0:40.0	I retweet really weird national security Twitter and get in a fight in do not eat dimensions.
0:50.0	So...
0:51.0	Alice Caldwell Kelly, she and her, if you please.
0:56.0	I'm Alice Avizandam on Twessa.
0:58.0	All right, so, this podcast about engineering disasters, right?
1:04.6	But not every disaster is the sudden catastrophe.
1:08.5	Some disasters happen slowly over the course of years
1:11.4	and we never really fully comprehend you know the full ramifications
1:16.0	until you know way after the fact so that we're going to talk about the SEPTA Regional Rail meltdown between about 1979 and 1992.
1:29.0	Oh, hell yeah.
1:31.0	I had a thought with this.
1:34.2	Originally having like one where we're not talking about like a column punching through something or something snapping makes me think, oh well this one's easy, it doesn't have like a death toll associated with it.
1:45.5	No one died because of this.
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