Whether it works or not will be key not just for Philadelphia, but could provide solutions to all beleaguered transit systems, including the TTC. Many cities are struggling with public transit violence and homelessness, but Philadelphia’s system is being held up as an example for introducing an innovative plan that seems to be a hopeful, humane way to handle its problems. She’s part of a project called SCOPE, which was launched in spring 2021 to help Philadelphia cope with a post-pandemic surge in homelessness, drug use and crime on its system. Colton is an outreach worker on the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, or SEPTA. It’s not an unusual conversation for Colton, a bubbly 37-year-old with glasses and dirty blond hair. I don’t spend it on a hotel or anything.” “I’ll spend that today and it’ll cover my day, pretty much,” he said. There, he plans to sell about $120 worth of items he had shoplifted at a local pawnshop. He is scruffy yet affable, and explains that he’s headed to Kensington, a neighbourhood home to the largest open-air drug market on the U.S. Jonas - he didn’t give his last name - is leaning against the window of the half-full car on Philadelphia’s Market-Frankford line. PHILADELPHIA-It’s a Wednesday morning in late February, and Sarah Colton is riding a train, chatting with a man who is on his way to buy drugs.
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