Daily News | SEPTA says 5th crash in a week is ‘alarming and concerning,’ plans to investigate staffing issues
The incident is the fifth accident involving a SEPTA bus or trolley in the past week. The transportation agency sends out over 1,300 buses and trolleys each day, carrying more than 350,000 passengers.
Most, but not all, of these major events in recent years involved at least one injured person, and few have resulted in death. Katie Hulihan, 26, works as a nanny, and takes the trolley and bus from Belmont to commute to her job and travel around the region. Crashes and fatalities for all kinds of vehicles are up in Philadelphia right now, notes Guerra. “It’s important to put these numbers in the context of overall crashes.”
The number of operators — people who drive the transit vehicles — on payroll declined 15% across all transit modes from early 2020 to early 2023, according to payroll records obtained by The Inquirer. Attrition was similar acrossAccording to Busch, the
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