SEPTA To Indefinitely Close Somerset Station In Kensington To Develop Safety & Security Strategy, Repairs

CBS Philadelphia

March 16, 2021

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — On Sunday, SEPTA officials will temporarily shut down a Market-Frankford Line stop in Kensington citing maintenance repairs. But the president of the transit union says that’s not the real reason.

Those familiar with the Somerset Station along the Market-Frankford Line say it’s simply too dangerous and despite more police stationed in the area, they tell Eyewitness News that conditions are only getting worse and that employees have lost the subway station to crime, gangs and drugs.

“I wouldn’t let my wife, my mother, anyone in my family, ride the system,” Philadelphia Transport Workers’ Union President Willie Brown.

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