In August 1944, white trolley operators for the Philadelphia Transportation Company went on strike because they didn’t want ...
Signage will display both the old and new designations for several months to help ease riders into the transition.
SEPTA says six of its buses will change from lettered routes to numeric designations. SEPTA's metro lines will also adopt a new system.
Patients on trolleys lined up head to toe are the “new normal” in casualty, says a top doctor. We were given exclusive access to the front line days after a survey of 5,000 nursing staff ...
Amidst a budget crisis, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) implemented a 7.5% fare increase on Dec. 1, 2024. The fares for buses, subways, trolleys and Regional Rail trains ...
There’s “a large homeless population that moves through SEPTA,” but he said officers are not allowing them to stay on the buses, trains and trolleys indefinitely. Lawson stressed that homelessness is ...
While legitimate complaints existed — like why so many stations lacked the machines to dispense them — the system worked: it cost SEPTA relatively little money, and riders knew how to use it. Then, in ...
SEPTA reported its largest one-year drop in serious crimes in the authority’s history, said SEPTA Police Chief Charles Lawson at a press conference on Thursday. The authority had a 33% decrease ...
The transit authority is close to spending an additional $211 million for a different company to update the system, at a time when its finances are precarious and officials are negotiating in ...
A retired SEPTA bus driver is speaking out about blind spots for buses after a couple was hit by one in South Philly on January 3. Police say 35-year-old Michael Spooner, died at the scene and his ...
This aircraft, named by the defence community as the J-36, is the latest in China’s growing arsenal of advanced military aviation prowess. Images and videos of the flight, captured in near real-time, ...
It took a little over eight years to build, run, and maintain SEPTA’s Key Card electronic fare-payment system and has cost at least $285 million, twice the budgeted amount. Now the transit authority ...