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SEPTA Board approves changes to Routes 2, 310
- Thursday, September 22, 2016
- By Jim Saksa
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SEPTA considered 187 proposed changes to its transit routes this year, but just two made the final cut: Extending Route 2 to Wayne Junction Station, and splitting Route 310’s long loop…
SEPTA battles Philadelphia before Supreme Court in jurisdictional war over LGBT protections (again)
- Thursday, September 15, 2016
- By Jim Saksa
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On Tuesday the Pennsylvania Supreme Court heard oral arguments for the second time in a case over a now-deceased person’s complaints about a since-abandoned SEPTA policy. SEPTA originally filed suit in…
Silverliner V repairs hit snag, knocking 18 recently returned rail cars back out of service
- Monday, September 12, 2016
- By Jim Saksa
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For SEPTA, the hits just keep coming. This time, literally, as the newly designed equalizer beams — the stabilizer part being replaced due to cracks found earlier this summer on a…
SEPTA announces extra buses to alleviate Regional Rail crunch
- Thursday, August 25, 2016
- By Jim Saksa
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Beginning September 6, SEPTA will run supplemental express buses during the morning and evening rush hours on some of the Regional Rail lines hardest hit by the railcar shortage that has…
Sidelined Silverliners: Repaired Regional Rail trains should rollout this month, normal service by October, says SEPTA
- Wednesday, August 3, 2016
- By Jim Saksa
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- 1234 Market Street, Philadelphia, 19103
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“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” Benjamin Franklin wrote two centuries ago. The phrase has become axiomatic, but not automatic, as SEPTA has painfully learned this summer…
SEPTA to end Key card’s 10,000 cap starting August 1st as rollout continues
- Friday, July 22, 2016
- By Jim Saksa
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As Elvis famously sang, only fools rush in. SEPTA’s taking that to heart with its rollout of its new payment technology, the SEPTA Key fare card. When it first debuted…
Art Commission approves rehab of 5th Street El station, denies digital displays at SEPTA entrances
- Wednesday, July 13, 2016
- By Ashley Hahn
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- 5th and Market Streets, Philadelphia PA
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SEPTA is not only renaming the 5th Street Station on the Market-Frankford Line, it’s giving the tired station its first major overhaul since the Bicentennial. The project team presented revised conceptual…
Silverliner silver lining: SEPTA leases trains to ease Regional Rail crunch, which will last past Labor Day
- Friday, July 8, 2016
- By Jim Saksa
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It’s great to have good neighbors, someone whose door you can knock on unexpectedly to borrow a cup of sugar. Thankfully for SEPTA and its Regional Rail riders, SEPTA has some…
Silverliner Playbook: What SEPTA's contract with Hyundai Rotem means for fixing the regional rail mess
- Wednesday, July 6, 2016
- By Jim Saksa
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The defect that has sidelined a third of SEPTA’s regional rail fleet will cost someone a lot of money. Just how that bill gets split up, though, remains to be seen.…
SEPTA and Regional Rail commuters respond to reduced service, Hyundai Rotem silent on defect
- Tuesday, July 5, 2016
- By Jim Saksa
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Days after SEPTA pulled nearly every railroad car Hyundai Rotem built out of service, no one is picking up the phone at the company’s manufacturing facility in South Philadelphia. Not for…
SEPTA to reduce regional rail service through August due to train defect
- Monday, July 4, 2016
- By Jim Saksa
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It may be hard for some regular riders to believe, but SEPTA’s regional rail service is about to get even more packed, thanks to a train defect that has taken nearly…
Next Stop: 5th Street/Independence Hall! SEPTA renames 5th Street Station, sorta
- Thursday, June 30, 2016
- By Jim Saksa
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- 5th and Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19106
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Good bye, 5th Street Station. To Philadelphians, your name might have made intuitive sense, but to hopelessly lost tourists so desperate to find the Birthplace of American Democracy that they couldn’t…
Center City District report highlights transit as competitive necessity for region’s economy
- Tuesday, June 28, 2016
- By Jim Saksa
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If everyone drove to work in Center City, how much parking would we need? According to a new report from the Center City District: 2.6 square miles of surface parking. The…
SEPTA stumbles across $33 million in savings, socks it away for a rainy day
- Wednesday, June 22, 2016
- By Jim Saksa
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A picture is worth a thousand words, but for SEPTA, videos are worth even more. The transit authority credits new cameras on its vehicles for dramatically reducing its lawsuit payments last…
A bold vision for 30th Street Station District unveiled, but can reality meet the ambitions?
- Friday, June 17, 2016
- By Jim Saksa
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- 30th Street Station
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“Go West, young man.” So exhorted Horace Greeley 150 years ago, borrowing those words from another writer to embrace and celebrate American manifest destiny. They are words the Pennsylvania Railroad took…
SEPTA: More than 1600 get new fare card in Key pilot launch
- Monday, June 13, 2016
- By Jim Saksa
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So far, so good. SEPTA reported smooth sailing during today’s launch of SEPTA Key, the authority’s new fare card. As of early Monday afternoon, 1,685 total cards were sold, said Andrew…
SEPTA Key Pilot launches Monday, full transit version delayed until end of the year
- Friday, June 10, 2016
- By Jim Saksa
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After years of delays, SEPTA’s long-awaited new payment technology, SEPTA Key, will finally make its public debut on Monday. Well, kind of. Starting at 5:30 Monday morning, up to 10,000 riders…
Local environmental group questions SEPTA proposal for natural gas plant in Nicetown
- Monday, June 6, 2016
- By Jim Saksa
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- Midvale Depot, Philadelphia PA
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SEPTA enjoys a pretty good track record when it comes to bridges, maintaining over 350 that consistently deliver trains safely over rivers and highways across the region. Commuters sometimes grumble when…
SEPTA announces discount program with Uber for rides to, from 11 regional rail stations
- Wednesday, May 25, 2016
- By Jim Saksa
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- Jenkintown-Wyncote Station
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SEPTA announced a 14-week pilot program with Uber to provide discounted rides to and from 11 of SEPTA’s regional rail stations. The transportation providers held a press conference today at SEPTA’s…
NTSB: Amtrak 188 engineer distracted by radio reports in minutes before crash
- Tuesday, May 17, 2016
- By Jim Saksa
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The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) concluded a yearlong investigation into the Amtrak 188 derailment that killed 8 and injured nearly 200 more, finding that the train’s engineer, Brandon Bostian, was…
