Travelers who pay with Key passes, credit or debit cards are among those affected by the increase. They would lose a 50-cent discount and pay $2.50 per trip, the same as the cash fare.
Commuters waiting at bus stop along JFK Boulevard at 15th Street in front of the Municipal Services Building in Center City Philadelphia.and making other adjustments to raise money as it stares down a $240 million operating deficit and awaits uncertain fiscal help from state government.
SEPTA says it also has reduced budgeted spending by about $20 million, including a hold on nonessential employee travel and a pause in hiring for some jobs, though it continues to seek to recruit and hire more bus operators., after making parking free to riders over the last four years amid the pandemic. Those changes are expected to raise about $4 million a year.
Most single-trip fares on Regional Rail would increase, except in Zone 1, which covers trips to and from city train stations. SEPTA also plans to add three new Regional Rail stations in the city to that zone —SEPTA’s board of directors has to approve the changes. The board is scheduled to take them up at its November meeting. Two public hearings are scheduled for Oct. 16.
“We’re trying to piece it together, to get as close to that $240 million gap as much as we can ourselves … while still giving the state an opportunity to fix more completely the gap this fall,” said Erik Johanson, senior director of budgets at SEPTA.currently have a narrow majority, said recently that they want to work working something out for transit as have Senate leaders, where
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