Septa Inaugurates Work on New Bus Interchange Station in North Philly
Septa has broken ground, ceremonially, on a $1.4-million bus loop improvement project in the Allegheny West neighborhood.
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Septa has broken ground, ceremonially, on a $1.4-million bus loop improvement project in the Allegheny West neighborhood.
A SEPTA bus struck a woman in North Philadelphia Saturday afternoon while she was attempting to get out of her car.
Passengers may experience residual delays.
The incident allegedly happened outside the Municipal Services Building at 15th and JFK Boulevard around 12:15 p.m.
Only CBS 3 cameras were there as a 17-year-old suspect was arrested by SEPTA police detectives and charged with driving an SUV onto the tracks of SEPTA's West Trenton Regional Rail line, where it was rammed by a train filled with scores of rush-hour riders.
Negotiations between SEPTA and the union representing the engineers on its regional rail lines have reached an impasse, but riders shouldn't worry about a work stoppage, at least for now.
The National Mediation Board, which has been overseeing talks between the two sides, says those negotiations have broken down and it's ending its efforts to broker an agreement.
The Greenwood Avenue Bridge was closed in June of 2012 and PennDOT spokesman Gene Blaum says the $5.4-million project was very complicated, but it's nearly done and the span is to reopen this June.
According to SEPTA, one person is dead after their vehicle collided with a SEPTA trolley Thursday afternoon.
Two passengers and a bus drivers were rescued in Manayunk after a SEPTA bus got stunk in some flood waters.
It happened around 4:41 p.m. at 56th Street and Hoffman Avenue in Southwest Philadelphia.
The woman reportedly fell down onto the tracks at the Ellsworth-Federal Station around 1:15 p.m.
SEPTA and Bensalem Township Police are speaking out for the first time about a Friday evening train crash in which a SEPTA West Trenton Regional Rail train plowed into an SUV that was abandoned on the tracks near the Neshaminy Falls station.
Septa riders are still waiting on the agency's long-promised plans to modernize its fare collection system.
SEPTA investigators are tracking down the suspected teens responsible for leaving the SUV right on the tracks.
From 2009 tp 2013, people who used mass transit to get to work were allowed to use up to $245 of pre-tax income per month to offset that cost. But at the end of 2013, the benefit was reduced by about $100 per month.
Miguel Gonzalez, 39, has pleaded guilty as part of a deal that brings him a 30-60 year sentence. The woman pleaded guilty earlier.
Septa officials are beginning an ambitious capital improvement project to repair century-old bridges that provide a base to parts of the Media-Elwyn regional rail line.
As part of its yearlong 50th anniversary celebration, SEPTA dusted off and showcased a bus from 1970 Thursday.
Surveillance cameras captured two separate incidents of people on the rails Wednesday.
More and more riders are taking part in this unofficial give-a-book/take-a-book program. It started with a ticket seller at the Cornwells Heights Station in Bensalem, Pa.
A new plan from SEPTA could have the subway trains running overnight again – at least on the weekends.
John McGee, who headed up SEPTA's long-delayed move to smartcards, has left the transit agency to go work for a firm that is involved with the project.
Beverly Washington loves looking at old photos, but these pictures are now what's left for her to hold of her grandson Andre after he was struck and killed by a SEPTA Regional Rail train on Monday.
The head of the union representing Philadelphia bus, subway and trolley operators said Tuesday that a strike is not imminent, but he noted that stalled contract talks would not resume until transit officials provided key financial information.
