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Train derails on Market Frankford elevated line, few injuries reported
- Saturday, September 16, 2017
- By Jim Saksa
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A SEPTA Market Frankford elevated line train derailed Saturday morning near Spring Garden Station. A SEPTA spokesman said around 30 passengers were on the train at the time it went off…
SEPTA blasts alarm over GOP House budget proposal’s cuts to state transportation funds
- Friday, September 8, 2017
- By Jim Saksa
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SEPTA officials are all train whistles and bus horns this week, warning that Pennsylvania’s ongoing budget woes now threaten their budget and, therefore, your commute. This week, the Republicans in the…
NHSL trains collide at 69th Street Station, 42 injured
- Tuesday, August 22, 2017
- By Jim Saksa
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All 42 people on board a SEPTA Norristown High Speed Line (NHSL) train were injured when it crashed early Tuesday morning at the 69th Street Station. The train collided with an empty train…
SEPTA debuts new mobile app allowing riders to text tips to transit police
- Wednesday, August 16, 2017
- By Jim Saksa
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SEPTA introduced a new app this morning to advance its “see something, say something” safety campaign. The SEPTA Transit Watch app will allows riders to “to discretely report safety and security…
Camera shy: Union opposed to SEPTA plan to video monitor employees
- Tuesday, August 15, 2017
- By Jim Saksa
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SEPTA’s largest union is vowing to fight a proposal for live video monitoring of the transit authority’s employees. Representatives from Transport Workers Union Local 234 will meet with management this week…
After hundreds accidentally get multiple Key cards, SEPTA takes a step to fix confusing kiosks
- Thursday, August 10, 2017
- By Jim Saksa
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SEPTA is taking a tentative step towards improving the user interfaces on its new fare card kiosks, piloting a new set of screens at its headquarters. If the user experience (UX)…
You weren’t the only one: After hundreds of riders accidentally get 2nd Key card, SEPTA pledges to fix kiosks, website
- Friday, July 28, 2017
- By Jim Saksa
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We all make mistakes. Often, they are our fault, a product of our own haste or laziness or stupidity. These are the blunders which we ourselves must own. We end up…
SEPTA considering suicide prevention barriers for City Hall Station subway platforms
- Wednesday, June 7, 2017
- By Jim Saksa
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Thirteen. It’s a number to avoid. Thirteen is bad luck. For SEPTA, thirteen is worse than that. In five of the last six years, 13 people died after being hit by…
SEPTA sees the light, OKs solar panels on maintenance facility rooftops
- Friday, May 26, 2017
- By Jim Saksa
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The sky was dark and cloudy outside, but there was nothing but sunshine inside SEPTA’s board room Thursday as the agency approved a contract to install photovoltaic solar panels on the…
SEPTA riders overwhelmingly take the bus and subway. Why does Regional Rail receive more funding?
- Tuesday, May 23, 2017
- By Jim Saksa
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SEPTA’s Regional Rail network has been running on borrowed time. It carries about 11 percent of SEPTA straphangers in an aging fleet of rail cars, on legacy infrastructure with the system’s…
SEPTA hears criticism of proposed bus route through University City
- Tuesday, May 9, 2017
- By Jim Saksa
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SEPTA’s proposed Route 49 bus represents a potential transportation gold rush, supporting residential real estate in Brewerytown, Fairmount and Grays Ferry by linking those neighborhoods with job-rich University City. But, just…
SEPTA has smooth ride through City Council budget hearings
- Tuesday, May 9, 2017
- By Jim Saksa
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The distance between Philadelphia City Hall and SEPTA’s Headquarters is barely a city block, which may help explain the downright neighborly goodwill during Monday’s City Council hearings on SEPTA’s budget. SEPTA…
PA Supreme Court says city’s anti-discrimination laws don’t apply to SEPTA
- Thursday, April 27, 2017
- By Jim Saksa
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In a 4-3 decision, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Philadelphia’s Fair Practices Ordinance does not cover SEPTA. The decision ends a decade-long legal saga that outlived both the original…
What would Trump’s budget mean for Philadelphia transit?
- Monday, April 10, 2017
- By Jim Saksa
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If Congress adopts President Donald J. Trump’s budget proposals, not much would change in Philadelphia, transportation-wise. And that’s a problem, the region’s boosters say. SEPTA is considering two major service expansions—extending…
SEPTA resists petition to end transfer fees
- Friday, April 7, 2017
- By Jim Saksa
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With SEPTA Key’s long-anticipated arrival on the region’s buses, subways and trolleys finally here, some riders think it’s time for SEPTA to update another part of its fare system: transfers. 5th…
SEPTA previews new bus route to link University City with Brewerytown, Fairmount and Grays Ferry
- Wednesday, March 29, 2017
- By Jim Saksa
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Bathrooms. It always begins and ends with bathrooms. A SEPTA bus route, that is—they all must have a bathroom at the end of the route for drivers to use during their…
Amid angry protest songs, SEPTA board approves Nicetown gas plant, again
- Friday, March 24, 2017
- By Jim Saksa
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For a second time, SEPTA’s board authorized the construction of gas and heat cogeneration gas plant next to Roberts Rail Yard and the Midvale Bus Depot in Nicetown on Thursday. As…
The way SEPTA buys equipment is sluggish and outdated, but fixing it means compromise
- Tuesday, March 21, 2017
- By Jim Saksa
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Last week PlanPhilly reported that SEPTA is expected to award a contract to build bilevel railcars for service on regional rail lines. Today Jim Saksa takes a step back to explain…
SEPTA to pick Massachusetts-based company to build bilevel railcars over Hyundai Rotem in South Philly
- Friday, March 17, 2017
- By Jim Saksa
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At its meeting next week, SEPTA’s board is expected to award CRRC MA Corporation a $137.5 million contract to build 45 bilevel railcars for Regional Rail. SEPTA picked the Chinese-owned company…
SEPTA transit fares to go up starting July 1st
- Friday, March 17, 2017
- By Jim Saksa
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Starting July 1st, stepping onto SEPTA will set you back slightly more. It's SEPTA's first fare increase since 2013. The authority planned to raise prices last year, but delayed the jump…
