A woman who says she was robbed and assaulted on Philadelphia’s Market-Frankford line has filed a complaint claiming that SEPTA is to blame for allowing dangerous conditions to escalate to the point that they violated her constitutional rights.

The suit accuses the Southeastern Pennsylvania Regional Transportation Authority of knowingly using policies that established “a social-welfare experiment in sheltering the homeless and creating safe-injection sites for drug abuse rather than as a means of public transportation for all of Philadelphia’s citizens.”

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