Without a solution, the commonwealth’s 57 transit agencies — carrying almost a million daily passengers — face double-digit service cuts and fare increases.
Gov. Josh Shapiro shakes hands with Mike Carroll, Pennsylvania secretary of transportation, after the construction of a temporary bridge along Interstate 95 in 2023. SEPTA’s network alone carries about half a million more people daily on average than the 160,000 people who drive on I-95.Gov. Josh Shapiro and Senate Republicans in the General Assembly have failed to reach a deal on critical transit funding before the end of the legislative session.
or reallocate — this funding toward transit and multimodal capital projects overseen by the Federal Transit Administration. Though flexed funds can’t generally be used directly for operations, they can free up transit agency capital funds for use in operating budgets. PennDot decision-making has been something of a black box, lacking an explicit and transparent strategic framework to guide prioritization like. While the agency presents its choices with the veneer of engineering science, inertia and politics are the more powerful forces determining what gets funded.
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