Monday Morning SEPTA Commuters Breathe Easy After Tentative Deal Is Reached With Union
SEPTA riders who feared a strike were breathing a sigh of relief Monday as they headed back to work and school.
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SEPTA riders who feared a strike were breathing a sigh of relief Monday as they headed back to work and school.
If you're planning to take SEPTA to the airport this morning, leave yourself some extra time.
SEPTA officials joined leaders from Transport Workers Union Local 234 late Friday night to announce that a deal had finally been reached.
SEPTA and TWU Local 234 negotiators have finished talking for the day, and will resume tomorrow, in efforts to head off a possible strike that would idle 5,000 workers on the city, suburban and frontier divisions, leaving nearly a million riders looking for another way to get where they are going.
A decision on whether to strike could come as soon as Friday.
SEPTA Riders are a little nervous after hearing the news about the potential for a strike.
Members of SEPTA's largest labor union – which represents subway, bus, and trolley operators – have voted to give its leadership the authorization to call a strike.
The Trasnsport Workers Union Local 234 represents SEPTA bus drivers, subway and trolley operators. They've been working without a contract since March.
SEPTA officials said five people were injured after a SEPTA bus collided with a car in North Philadelphia Wednesday afternoon.
Investigators say a woman had parked her car in the Woodbourne Station parking lot at about 6:40am and was walking to the platform when she was hit.
SEPTA has reported lengthy delays on the West Trenton regional rail line Wednesday morning.
Now that Septa has a tentative agreement with its Regional Rail engineers, talks are resuming with the transit agency's biggest union, representing bus, subway, and trolley workers.
SEPTA has reported delays of up to 10 minutes on the Market-Frankford line early Tuesday morning.
Engineers who operate commuter trains in the Philadelphia area have reached a tentative contract with the regional transit agency.
SEPTA has extended weekend overnight subway service on the Broad Street and Market-Frankford Lines indefinitely.
Both sides met Monday. SEPTA spokeswoman Jerri Williams calls meeting "productive" and Steve Bruno, Vice President of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers says it was "fairly decent."
Rail service was suspended along SEPTA's Wilmington-Newark Line after a person was hit by a train.
Around 7:30am Tuesday, SEPTA said all passengers between the 5th and 15th Street Stations should board on the westbound platforms. The MFL is operating with single-track service due to that disable train.
Authorities say a man in his 60s was walking south on the regional rail line tracks when he was hit by a SEPTA R5 train.
The mother has been identified by family members as 29-year-old Sheena White.
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The largest of the seven projects, costing $32 million, is to shore up the cabling that powers SEPTA's entire Regional Rail system.
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The robbery reportedly happened at the Broad Street Line Erie Station around 2:40 a.m. on Sunday, when police say the suspect stole a cell phone from the victim's pocket.
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