Tag: SEPTA

In an effort to maintain a clean and sanitized fleet of vehicles during the coronavirus pandemic, SEPTA has announced the removal of buses with fabric seats.

As the coronavirus pandemic drains SEPTA of riders and revenue, the agency is implementing a range of emergency cost-cutting measures.

SEPTA subways, trains and buses will run less frequently in the Philadelphia region starting Sunday.

SEPTA will reduce Regional Rail service by 25% for the next two weeks and reductions are coming to city train and bus lines, too.

As ridership numbers drop, the SEPTA riders left on emptier trains take up new safety practices.

The authority’s new fare structure would provide one free transfer per trip. The $1 fee would be applied to the second transfer within a 90-minute window.

SEPTA set to announce a new fare structure, as transit advocates pressure the agency to make transfers free.

The new member of City Council gave the transit authority board a hard time about what is regarded as a burden on Philadelphia’s low-income riders.

General manager Leslie Richards plans to improve the transit system’s signage and wayfinding in hopes of making it easier to navigate.

SEPTA riders will soon be able to look at a sign in a train station and see in real time when trains are arriving, on time or otherwise.

Transit agency SEPTA is spending millions more to fix cracking steel beams inside subway cars on the Market-Frankford Line, straining the line’s capacity.

The increase in service on Philadelphia’s busiest transit line comes as a response to changing rider habits, SEPTA officials said.

SEPTA police are trying to figure out how and why a man was found dead on top of an eastbound Market Frankford Line train at Girard Station.

The high-profile decision on fare increases will be one of the first major moves made under Richards’ leadership.

SEPTA is discontinuing skip-stop service on the MFL line as of Feb. 23 so riders won’t have to worry about boarding a train that doesn’t make their stop.