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Under the transportation authority's proposed budget, the Paoli/Thorndale Line and four bus routes that serve Lower Merion ...
During oral arguments Wednesday, counsel for the District Attorney’s Office asserted that Pennsylvania Act 40 of 2023—which ...
SEPTA says it will be forced to cut nearly half of its service and increase fares more than 20% if it does not get funding to address its budget deficit.
SEPTA calculates its operating deficit would be $117 million larger without its Efficiency & Accountability program.
Central to the debate around bailouts for the Philadelphia area’s mass transit system, SEPTA, has been the long-term ...
With drastic cuts to nearly all of SEPTA's services and fare increases looming, the mass transit provider's interim general manager -- along with other transit officials -- appeared before ...
"SEPTA's funding crisis isn't a transit issue. This is a justice issue. This is an education issue. This is an economic issue." For Montgomery County Commissioner Neil Makhija the issue "could not ...
SEPTA’s predictable annual request for state funding is untenable. The commonwealth faces its own financial issues—primarily a $3.6 billion budget deficit. Voters aren’t eager to bail out ...
Overall, SEPTA plans to save $1.8 billion by pausing projects and reducing the scope of others, and to borrow $1.2 billion by issuing bonds, beginning in 2028. That will keep some urgent projects ...
Amidst looming severe SEPTA service cuts — including the elimination of a regional rail line in Delaware County — and fare increases due to a $213 million deficit, Delaware County Councilwoman ...