Septa 15th St. Station

Ugh, for starters, the 15^th street terminal is ALWAYS hot. In the summer, it is unbearable. You are literally standing in your own sweat. I feel as though I am having hot flashes every day but I digress.
The amount of people there are every day at this station is insane. Septa should really make this station bigger.
Unfortunately, I can’t avoid coming here every day, twice a day, so I guess I will have to bear with the heat and the incessant crowds for awhile.

Staffing is appropriate here and it might not be the cleanest, but its easy access to the Market Frankford line, as well as a close transfer to the broad street line.
I appreciated the Septa employee who directed me in the right direction as taking the underground is fairly new to me. You can’t go wrong when it cost just 1.80 to get almost entirely across the city.

I have to say, you’d think they would do some thing about the way the ceiling always leaks when it rains right by the free interchange hallway on the MFL platform. That should have probably been a top priority with the construction they’ve been doing, since it probably has the most people passing through of any area in the city. Oh well.
Signage is pretty on par with the train stations in any other city I’ve been to, and even friends visiting from out of town have been able to find their way around. So I’m not sure about the complaints about that. Also, one of the reasons for the construction is to put in elevators. So complain about one or the other, you can’t really have it both ways.

Good luck finding your way between lines. This station lacks decent signage and its archaic layout makes no sense. It also seems to be perpetually under construction, only it gets worse, not better, with the passing of tine. Need an elevator? Sorry. No.

Ahhhhhhhh, where can I start? Okay, this station is really dingy and old. There are cracks along the ceiling and walls and everytime it rains there are huge puddles on the ground. There’s plenty of trash, rats, and mice running along the track to keep you company while you wait for your train. There’s a really bad odor of piss going here, and the panhandelers are non-​stop. The stations also get pretty packed during rush hour because SEPTA can’t afford to run more trains. So, expect to bum rush while getting on.
BUT, the MFL, BSL, and 3 trolley lines stop here. So that comes in handy, I guess.