{"id":140986,"date":"2025-08-13T00:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T00:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/140986\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T00:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T00:16:08","slug":"septa-cuts-what-to-know-amid-pa-senate-budget-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/140986\/","title":{"rendered":"SEPTA cuts: What to know amid Pa. Senate budget talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the proposal could be enough to fend off a looming 20% reduction in service, it would do little to prevent expected fare increases, which under Picozzi\u2019s proposal would still occur year-over-year. <\/a>\n<\/p>\n

SEPTA has not yet responded to a request for comment.\n<\/p>\n

On Monday, the Democrat-led state House of Representatives passed a funding bill for a fifth time, <\/a>which included money for SEPTA. That legislation would increase the share of sales tax revenue used for both roads and mass transit funding in the state.\n<\/p>\n

What SEPTA routes will be impacted by service cuts?<\/p>\n

If funding legislation is not approved by Thursday, Aug. 14, a 20% service cut will begin 10 days later, on Sunday, Aug. 24 \u2014 the day before the first day of school for Philadelphia public schools.\n <\/p>\n

The cuts, described by SEPTA as a \u201cdeath spiral,\u201d will result in the immediate elimination of 32 bus routes and the shortening of 16 bus routes. There will also be a reduction in service to the 88 bus, Metro and Regional Rail lines and will discontinue all special service, including the Sports Express.\n<\/p>\n

The bus routes that will be eliminated are the: 1<\/a>, 8<\/a>, 12<\/a>, 19<\/a>, 30<\/a>, 31<\/a>, 35<\/a>, 47M<\/a>, 50<\/a>, 62<\/a>, 73<\/a>, 78<\/a>, 80<\/a>, 88<\/a>, 89<\/a>, 91, 106<\/a>, 120<\/a>, 126<\/a>, 133<\/a>, 150<\/a>, 201<\/a>, 204 (Sept. 27, 2025)<\/a>, 206<\/a>, 311<\/a>, 452, 461, 462, 476, 478, 484, BLVD DIR<\/a> and MANN LOOP.\n<\/p>\n

SEPTA fare increases, curfew and beyond: What other changes are on the table<\/p>\n

Under the Senate proposal<\/a> introduced Tuesday, fares would increase to account for the cost of inflation or \u201cby the percentage increase in the consumer price index,\u201d the bill states.\u00a0\u00a0<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

Without any funding, SEPTA says it will need to increase the base fare to $2.90, up from $2.50 beginning Sept. 1. In addition, a complete hiring freeze, including operators, would also go into effect.\n<\/p>\n

By Jan. 1, 2026, more service cuts would be on the way, including a 9 p.m. curfew on all train service and the elimination of five Regional Rail routes<\/a> and the Broad-Ridge Spur.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the proposal could be enough to fend off a looming 20% reduction in service, it would do…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":140987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1448,2830,84126,84127,1311,9907,15940,84128,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-140986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-pa","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-pennsylvania-budget","12":"tag-pennsylvania-legislature","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-public-transportation","15":"tag-septa","16":"tag-septa-budget","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115018582090964241","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}