Original sentence: PA-TEC strongly criticized SEPTA's response
Edited sentence: " PA-TEC added that SEPTA "has washed their hands of the Fox Chase/Newtown line by refusing to associate their name with it in public." PA-TEC added that they were "concerned that SEPTA is creating an additional constituency resistant to putting rails on a (SEPTA) owned ROW, in this case the trail users," concluding that "the trail use will create an additional avenue of resistance even for those who would never be trail users.NIMBYs... will be avid trail users, not for the sake of the trail, but to prevent rail use.PA-TEC responded in the press by calling SEPTA's response "an act resembling Pontius Pilate", stating that SEPTA was "going against their enabling legislation per Pennsylvania State Law.Without any analysis, SEPTA has rejected a taxpayer funded federal study that provides specific recommendations that best preserve dormant railways