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Properly funding SEPTA is essential to Philadelphia’s economic future | Editorial

Cuts and fare increases would lead to fewer people on SEPTA buses, trolleys, and trains — further eroding fare revenue and trapping the system in a doom spiral.

A SEPTA Market-Frankford Line train pulls away from the Frankford Transportation Center. SEPTA’s impending budget crisis would not only impact the system’s more than 700,000 daily riders, but its cascading failure would negatively affect the entire region, writes the Editorial Board.
A SEPTA Market-Frankford Line train pulls away from the Frankford Transportation Center. SEPTA’s impending budget crisis would not only impact the system’s more than 700,000 daily riders, but its cascading failure would negatively affect the entire region, writes the Editorial Board.Read moreElizabeth Robertson / Staff Photographer