US EditionSEPTA Ordered To Bring Back Cut Services, Fare Increases Get Go Ahead
Judge orders SEPTA to restore all service cuts affecting 48 bus routes and rail lines amid a $213 million deficit, while allowing a 21.5% fare increase to proceed.
- On Thursday, Judge Sierra Thomas Street ordered the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority to immediately reverse recent service cuts following hearings on August 29 and September 4, 2025.
- Facing a $213 million shortfall, SEPTA enacted cuts approved in the July 26, 2025 doomsday budget as the Pennsylvania Legislature remains deadlocked.
- The judge's order requires SEPTA to restore the 32 bus routes eliminated on Aug. 24, the 16 bus routes shortened, and Sports Express trains, though reinstatement may take 10 days.
- Although service cuts were reversed, the court cleared SEPTA's planned 21.5% fare increase, raising base fares from $2.50 to $2.90 and train fares from $11 to $13, despite $517,000 weekly losses, Jody Holton said.
- Attorneys zeroed in on SEPTA Service Stabilization Fund, citing more than $300 million, while plaintiffs argued at least $200 million is available to prevent cuts amid Jan. 1 service reductions warning.
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SEPTA says it’ll comply with order to restore deep service cuts
By MARC LEVY, The Associated Press HARRISBURG — Philadelphia’s public transit agency said Friday that it will restore services that it eliminated after a judge ordered it to undo the two-week-old cuts that were challenged in court as discriminatory toward poor and minority communities. SEPTA said it is working on a plan to restore service, but that restorations could take 10 days. It couldn’t immediately say whether it will appeal the judge’s or…
SEPTA agrees to reverse service cuts, stop planned fare increase
HARRISBURG — Philadelphia's public transit agency said Friday that it will restore services that it eliminated after a judge ordered it to undo the two-week-old cuts that were challenged in court as discriminatory toward poor and minority communities. The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority said it is working on a plan to restore service, but that restorations could take 10 days. It couldn't immediately say whether it will appeal …
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Philadelphia's mass transit agency says it'll comply with order to restore deep service cuts
Philadelphia’s public transit agency says it'll restore services that it eliminated after a judge ordered it to undo the two-week-old cuts that were challenged in court as discriminatory toward poor and minority communities.
Judge orders SEPTA to reinstate all service
SEPTA must restore all services it had cut and cannot enact further cuts, but may go ahead with a fare increase, a judge has ruled. SEPTA PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia judge has ordered the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority to restore the service it cut beginning Aug. 24, but will allow a fare increase to move forward. The order on Thursday (Sept. 4, 2025) from Judge Sierra Thomas-Street of the Court of Common Pleas calls for S…
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