Commuters have bemoaned Philly’s public transit for decades − in 1967, a librarian got the city to listen

Commuters have bemoaned Philly’s public transit for decades − in 1967, a librarian got the city to listen

A SEPTA train moves along the Market-Frankford Line in West Philadelphia. AP Photo/Matt RourkeOn April 13, 1967, around 1:30 p.m., Lt. Joseph Larkin of the Philadelphia Police Department’s subway unit visited the Philadelphia High School for Girls to interview the school’s librarian, 61-year-old Miriam S. Axelrod. Axelrod had written a letter to Mayor James H.J. Tate about poor conditions on Philadelphia’s Broad Street Line subway. In her letter…