Without permanent funding, SEPTA says it will increase the base fare 21.5% to $2.90, up from $2.50, beginning Sept. 1.<\/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.<\/p>\n Senia Lopez rides the Route 1 bus, which will be eliminated.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve started to think about what does it look like if I actually have to start driving,\u201d Lopez said. \u201cWhere would that money come from to be able to afford that? I don\u2019t have that. I work paycheck to paycheck. The other plan is truly just wake up even earlier. I have to be in at 7:00. I already leave my house at 5:30.\u201d<\/p>\n The bus routes that will be eliminated are: 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What are SEPTA\u2019s cuts? The cuts, described as a \u201cdeath spiral,\u201d will eliminate 32 bus routes and shorten…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":157276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,10324,1448,2830,1311,91446,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-157275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-northeast-philadelphia","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-septa-funding","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115053075219170244","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157275","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=157275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Marion](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/08-18-2025-k-paynter-Picozzi-office-protest-SEPTA-3-1024x683.jpg\")
Marion Brown, a resident of Philly\u2019s Fox Chase neighborhood, held her senior transit pass as she spoke out against SEPTA cuts at a protest inside Republican state Sen. Joe Picozzi\u2019s office in Philadelphia to demand full funding for SEPTA, Aug. 18, 2025. (Kimberly Paynter\/WHYY)<\/p>\n