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Jim Kenney

Councilmember Nicolas O’Rourke speaking at a hearing late last year.

Transportation

Council member pitches plan to save free transit passes for low-income people

Councilmember Nicolas O'Rourke wants to create the Philadelphia Transit Access Fund, a trust for free or reduced-fare transit passes for low-income people.

Thomas Fitzgerald

Electric scooter riders move near fall foliage at the Race Street Pier on Oct. 14, 2024. A $12 million federal grant to increase Philly's tree canopy has been unfrozen.

Philadelphia

Trump administration unfreezes money for Philly Tree Plan

Frank Kummer

A SEPTA bus at Spring Garden and North 16th Streets. City figures for the first year of the Zero Fare program found that the majority of passholders' trips were on buses.

Transportation

Jim Kenney urges Mayor Parker to continue SEPTA program that gave free rides to low-income Philadelphians

Thomas Fitzgerald

Former Mayor Jim Kenney writes that the free SEPTA transit pass program is an essential way to keep helping working families — people who wake up every morning, catch a bus and a subway, and do their best to make ends meet.

Opinion

Jim Kenney: Don’t let the free SEPTA transit pass program die

Jim Kenney, For The Inquirer

District Attorney Larry Krasner drinks coffee outside of Gleaner’s Cafe before shopping for groceries in the Italian Market on March 8 in South Philadelphia.

Elections

DA Larry Krasner says Philly is ‘safer and freer’ as he seeks a third term. Will voters buy in?

Ellie Rushing and Anna Orso

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