SEPTA Resumes Regular Schedules On Most Transit Services
SEPTA is bringing back front-door boarding and fare collection on buses and trolleys.
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SEPTA is bringing back front-door boarding and fare collection on buses and trolleys.
Officials are planning to increase SEPTA services starting on Monday.
Eyewitness News was at the Frankford Transportation Center, where SEPTA showed off changes to busses.
A month ago, SEPTA reduced services down to a lifeline schedule. The aim was to protect riders and operators.
Customers are advised to use SEPTA for essential travel only and are strongly encouraged to wear face masks and coverings.
Russell Gardner currently works at the NRG station as a custodian.
The upcoming work will affect the Airport, Media/Elwyn and Wilmington/Newark Lines.
Yolanda Woodberry, a bus operator in Frankford, died over the weekend.
Instead, SEPTA will run them on what it calls a frequency based schedule.
The union called off a work stoppage planned for yesterday after a conversation with Mayor Jim Kenney.
The announcement comes after the union said SEPTA was not doing enough to protect workers during the coronavirus pandemic.
The union is giving SEPTA until Thursday to implement better safety precautions to protect employees during the coronavirus pandemic or it will take action.
The union says conductor Mike Hill, who has been with SEPTA since 1989, died as a result of COVID-19.
SEPTA is now offering riders surgical masks.
SEPTA operators now have the right to refuse to transport passengers that do not wear masks, and this is the first time that we've heard of Philadelphia police called in to enforce that rule.
Eyewitness News was at SEPTA's Regional Rail Station in Manayunk -- which is one of several stations now closed.
SEPTA Transit Police Chief Thomas Nestel says the eight teens were 14 and 15 years old.
A third SEPTA employee has died from COVID-19, TWU Local 234 President Willie Brown confirmed to Eyewitness News.
Brown says there are currently 46 confirmed positive cases within the SEPTA union.
The alleged attack happened around 7:30 p.m. Wednesday on the Broad Street Line platform at City Hall.
Further changes for SEPTA went into effect on Wednesday.
Right now, a total of 13 SEPTA employees have tested positive for COVID-19.
SEPTA is reducing Regional Rail services to an "Essential Service Schedule" in an effort to contain the coronavirus outbreak.
Officials say the two employees are maintenance workers, but they do not work in the same location.
SEPTA is urging customers to practice social distancing even while on the bus.
