PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Big changes are coming for SEPTA\u2019s bus routes, and riders got a chance to weigh in on the rollout during an open house held at SEPTA headquarters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Riders perused easels outlining the phased-in changes to begin in late August, known as the New Bus Network. Transit advocate Douglas Diehl said there still were too many adjustments all at once.<\/p>\n
“They’re throwing the kitchen sink, the bedroom and the dining room together at everybody,” he said.<\/p>\n
Rider Jordan Alexander of Norristown asked why SEPTA couldn’t just increase service instead of eliminating routes.<\/p>\n
“What they can do is one: Buy more buses. Two, hire more people,” he said.<\/p>\n
SEPTA’s bus route overhaul reduces the total number of bus routes from 124 to 106, to create more frequent and reliable service.<\/p>\n
SEPTA Senior Director of Service Planning and Schedules Colin Foley said the new bus network also uses the existing bus fleet.<\/p>\n
“It’s essentially the same number of service hours that we provide today. But we’re just deploying them where we see people are traveling,” he said.<\/p>\n
Foley also said that was why SEPTA held more than 200 public meetings and outreach sessions about the new bus network.<\/p>\n
“The New Bus Network allows us to really allocate our existing service hours in places where people are traveling and where they’re needed,” he said.<\/p>\n
Changes this fall eliminate seven routes, but include a new Route 72 along Cheltenham Avenue and a new Route 76 bus from Crescentville down Columbus Boulevard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Big changes are coming for SEPTA\u2019s bus routes, and riders got a chance to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":733878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,18393,1448,2830,1311,26945,15940,522,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-733877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-america","tag-bus","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-public-transit","tag-septa","tag-transportation","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116418698820894402","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733877","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=733877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/733878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}