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SEPTA plans to cut service on dozens of routes and may lay off staff amid funding crisis
SEPTA's budget, unveiled Thursday, cuts 45% of service and raises fares to make up a monetary deficit that has been brewing ...
SEPTA’s proposed cuts are ‘catastrophic,’ say Philly leaders
As SEPTA proposed slashing nearly half its service, people across the region expressed shock Thursday at realizing the depth of a fiscal crisis that could cripple the transit network. “I was pretty ...
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SEPTA warns of service cuts, curfew, elimination of bus routes and train lines without state funding increase
Joe Brandt has been a digital content producer for CBS News Philadelphia since 2022. He is a Temple University graduate and was born and raised in Pitman, NJ. Facing a $213 million funding gap in next ...
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SEPTA service would be cut nearly in half under new budget proposal if more funding not secured
beginning with the launch of fall schedules on August 24, SEPTA said. The SEPTA Board will vote on the budget proposals June 26. Paratransit services in impacted lines would be eliminated ...
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SEPTA Unveils New Budget: 5 Regional Rail Lines Gone, 56 Bus Routes Slashed, and the Highest Fares in the Country
An additional 16 — 10 in the city and six in the ’burbs — will have their routes cut back, and service will be reduced on 12 of the 13 SEPTA Metro lines, all Regional Rail lines and 63 bus ...