PTC conducted several studies to determine ridership needs, and over the course of the next few decades, mapped dozens of trolley routes all over Philly and the ‘burbs. Together they authorized constructing trolley tracks on a handful of streets, including 12th, 15th, 20th, Sansom, Pine, Christian and Morris. Happily for the transit commissioner, the mayor agreed. “And no reasonable prospect of anything better in the near future.” “There is today absolutely no choice between horse-cars and trolley cars,” Widener wrote in 1892. Philly were among the last cities in the United States to hold onto horse power as a means of public transit, and Widener was getting fed up. PTC cofounder Peter Widener wrote a letter to then-Mayor Edwin Stuart basically begging him to authorize a switch from the mechanism they used at the time…literal horse-drawn street cars. It all started in the late 1800s, when officials at the Philadelphia Traction Company - that’s what our public transit agency was called back then - started insisting the city upgrade its fleet to modern trolley cars.

When the bus arrived at 11:15 a.m., Watson followed the victim off of the bus and continued to harass her inside the mall, until the victim reached her workplace and her boss appeared.A horse-drawn streetcar shown at 6th and Jackson Street in 1894 Credit: Library Company of Philadelphia City gives up holding its horses Prior to this incident the victim did not know Watson, and police say Watson purposefully chose to sit next to the victim as there were other free seats on the bus. The victim told police that Watson sat uncomfortably close to her, so that his body was touching hers.ĭuring the 45 minute bus ride, Watson groped the victim multiple times. Watson reportedly followed the girl onto the bus and sat down next to her.

The female victim told police she boarded a SEPTA bus at 10:30 a.m. The incident occurred on January 22nd when Bensalem Police were called to Neshaminy Mall for reports of a 17-year-old girl who was stalked and groped on a Septa bus. Police say 25-year-old Elmange Watson, was arrested on February 21 for stalking, corruption of minors and indecent assault, and two counts of harassment. Police have arrested a man from Philadelphia for stalking and groping a teen girl on a Septa Bus.

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