Tag: SEPTA

The unarmed guards will assist SEPTA police officers as the transit agency works to improve safety amid a citywide violence epidemic.

Residents gathered to protest the temporary closure of Somerset Station — a lifeline to jobs, appointments, and school for those who have continued to use it mid-pandemic.

The victim was shot at the Market-Frankford Line's 15th Street Station late Sunday night, SEPTA said.

In a virtual meeting, Kensington residents, city officials, and SEPTA leaders spoke about the challenges faced at the station, which will close Sunday.

Drivers say they are overwhelmed by people struggling with homelessness and addiction. SEPTA has only 7 social workers to help contain the crisis.

Welcoming to many and then cut off from transportation, support, and opportunity, Kensington has long been on its own.

The suspended SEPTA employees were among seven transit police officers who traveled to the Jan. 6 Trump rally that ended with the storming of the Capitol.

Located in an area hard hit by Philadelphia’s opioid crisis, the MFL station’s elevators were destroyed by urine and needles, SEPTA officials said.

SEPTA’s police union is calling on agency officials to reverse a policy that delays the arrest of alleged criminal offenders on the SEPTA system.

The $2 billion rail line would connect KOP to University City and Center City, creating a trifecta of the largest employment hubs in the region.

People set up tents inside the underground concourse at 12th and Locust streets seeking warmth and shelter during the recent snow emergency.

The plan presents a detailed, yet still unfunded, manifest for a transit system that doesn’t center 9-5 commuters and instead, serves a changed economy.

After gunmen injured eight victims Wednesday afternoon, North Philly commuters feel traumatized. “We’re just trying to make it out of our own neighborhood,” one person said.

Bus drivers and others on SEPTA’s frontlines describe harassment and attacks as part of the job. The pandemic has worsened the situation, some say.

Conducted before the COVID-19 pandemic threatened the lungs of transit workers and commuters, the study looked at stations in four major American cities.