This has basically nothing to do with the politics or issues of the mayor's race or the City Council elections. I just thought it was interesting.
On that note, have you ever had the privilege of waiting for the El at 12:30am and seeing the "money train?" It's pretty cool if you haven't and it also signals that there's only one more El train coming through. Last time I saw it, the train was made up of 6 of the old style El cars - the ones I used to ride in high school - except instead of windows, there's armored plates.
The train rolls into the station and from one end the custodial staff jumps out (oh yeah, did I mention that there's no doors either?) and grabs all of the trash bags from the cans on the platform. They tie up the bags and toss them into the car where dozens of similar trash bags are piled. From the other end of the train come two of the most bad-ass, jacked-up looking mofos that you'll ever see on a SEPTA train. In each hand they carry two lock-boxes (Al Gore would be proud). As they walk past, briskly but not looking rushed at all, the pounding of their feet on the platform seems to shake the entire station. They disappear up the steps to the cashier booths and less than a minute later reappear with their boxes full and jingling with thousands of coins and tokens.
Within 2 minutes, everyone is back on the train and it pulls out to head to the next station. Both times I witnessed it, the train was heading westbound, most likely where it delivered its contents to the the armored cars that would carry the money to "nondescript fortress in a secret location" mentioned in the article.
Am I the only one who read this and immediately became curious about the location of this fortress?
Anyway... just thought it was interesting.