SEPTA warns of service cuts, curfew, elimination of bus routes and train lines without state funding increase
- SEPTA unveiled its fiscal year 2026 austerity budget, which anticipates significant service reductions.
- A structural budget deficit is impacting transit agencies because COVID relief funds ended and costs increased.
- The agency plans to increase fares by over 20 percent and reduce overall service by 45 percent.
- Interim General Manager Sauer said agencies face a "structural budget deficit due to a combination of the ending of federal COVID relief funds and increases in the day-to-day costs."
- Without a state funding solution, SEPTA will cut service by 45% by July 2026, eliminating routes and ending rail service at 9 p.m.
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List of SEPTA rail, bus lines affected by service cuts in Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties
Here are the bus and rail lines that serve points in Chester, Delaware and Montgomery counties and whether they would be affected by the proposed SEPTA budget cuts for 2025 and 2026. • The R5 Thorndale/Paoli Regional Rail Line would be eliminated Jan. 1, 2026. • Route 92 — No charges anticipated. • Route 93 — Reduced service. • Route 104 — Reduced service. • Route 106 — Eliminated. • Route 119 — No changes anticipated. • Route 124 — Shortened. •…
'A SEPTA that is a shadow of itself': Mass transit company serving hundreds of thousands in Pa. and beyond, proposes 45% cut in services
Officials say if SEPTA doesn't get the millions of dollars it needs from the state, some bus routes, rail lines -- and service hours -- will all be eliminated.
SEPTA prepares for major service cuts
SEPTA has announced plans for a 45% reduction in service to address a budget deficit. Lines to be eliminated— or, in the case of two trolley lines, to be replaced by buses — are shown in red. SEPTA PHILADELPHIA — The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority has become the latest transit agency to unveil plans for draconian service cuts because of a funding shortage. Five Regional Rail lines and 50 bus lines would be eliminated, rail se…
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