SEPTA is taking steps to protect its drivers with a new project that will see bulletproof "cockpits" installed in buses later this year. The move comes after the mass transit provider reported 39 ...
It has been more than one year since a SEPTA bus driver was shot and killed by a passenger and the agency is working to make sure it never happens again. Trained sharpshooters demonstrated how the ...
Part of a union agreement reached late last year, SEPTA is adding bulletproof glass compartments for its bus drivers. On Tuesday a group of SWAT officers will fire multiple rounds at the glass to test ...
He said bus operators and transit union officials from Houston, Miami and other major cities attended the demonstration. Philadelphia moved to install the compartments in part after the fatal shooting ...
SEPTA currently has 125 bus routes with 354,820 daily rides, as of January. The transit agency, the sixth largest in the nation, faces a structural operating deficit of $213 million.
With the start of the spring schedules, SEPTA is introducing a new system for identifying the bus and rail transit lines in the city and suburbs. From Sunday on, all the bus routes will have ...
SEPTA is streamlining the way it refers to its different services in an effort to make the transit system easier for riders to navigate. All bus lines will now be indicated by number and all metro ...
SEPTA has been trying out lots of different stuff lately. Those gates at the 69th Street Terminal that are supposed to thwart fare evaders. All those new route numbers. The under-development SEPTA ...
This story has been updated to correct the spelling of the last name of SEPTA senior press officer ... the Routes 101 and 102 trolley lines and multiple bus routes. The Market-Frankford Line ...
Philadelphia moved to install the compartments in part after the fatal shooting of a SEPTA bus driver by a passenger in October 2023. Safety concerns were raised again last year following a spate ...