Philadelphia Taxi Drivers Plead For Better On-The-Job Protections
Since May, when one taxi operator was murdered in West Philadelphia, other drivers have been stabbed, choked, beaten, threatened, and shot.
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Since May, when one taxi operator was murdered in West Philadelphia, other drivers have been stabbed, choked, beaten, threatened, and shot.
It's becoming a chronic problem, causing occasional train delays, and officials say they're taking steps to stop it.
"Our outdated infrastructure is rated with a D+ grade," said National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) president and CEO Jay Timmons.
At 30th Street Station, US Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) said he'll urge his colleagues to lock in long-term funding for transportation.
A new government report has faulted the way the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey implemented toll increases two years ago.
Septa says it needs $6.5 billion over the next ten years to improve crumbling railroad bridges, outdated rail cars, and substations that are 80 years old.
If you like really low fares to New York, especially to lower Manhattan, you're probably among the legions lamenting the shutdown of those shoestring Chinatown buses.
On this the 12th anniversary of the terrorist attacks, law enforcement officials spent the morning greeting riders along the SEPTA transit system.
Nearly 40 percent of the downtown workforce lives outside the city and they, too, are abandoning cars.
Extending Lafayette Street has been in the planning stages since 2000, when the first federal dollars were locked up.
A federal grant will help SEPTA move forward with a two-year project designed to alleviate congestion on the tracks in parts of Bucks County.
One new sign has been posted along the Baltimore Avenue Bridge over Darby Creek, in Clifton Heights.
With the new school year beginning, New Jersey's mobile inspection teams are making the rounds to make sure that school buses are being properly maintained.
Four years after SEPTA launched its "Quiet Ride" cars on certain Regional Rail trains, the agency is conducting a survey to find out if all that shushing has been worthwhile.
On Tuesday, crews of cleaners used leaf blowers to round up the debris along the parkway as laborers took apart the four performance stages.
