SEPTA announced that the pioneering train operator is retiring after 40 years of service. Photo credit: Philadelphia NBC 10 Jackie Pettyjohn is SEPTA’s first woman train engineer. The ...

SEPTA union members officially ratified a new two-year contract on Saturday, Nov. 6, effectively ending the threat of a worker strike for at least the next couple of years. The Transport Workers Union ...

The SEPTA board approved a $211 million contract Thursday for a new fare payment system expected to be more reliable and easier to use than the SEPTA Key system in place now. Cubic Transportation ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- SEPTA's board approved spending $230 million to hire San Diego-based Cubic Transportation Systems to replace the transit agency's current Key Card system. The program has ...

SEPTA is trimming costs as it drafts a new operating budget and hopes to wring new state dollars from the legislature. So far, SEPTA says, it has cut $27 million with austerity measures, including a ...

A Nether Providence Township man was killed after being struck by a SEPTA train at the Wallingford Station on Sunday, Jan. 19, police announced. Emergency services responded to East Possum Hollow Road ...

The transit agency has added more people on its police force and worked to keep people from using their vehicles as a home. A SEPTA bus passing through the intersection of 17th Street and JFK ...

While legitimate complaints existed — like why so many stations lacked the machines to dispense them — the system worked: it cost SEPTA relatively little money, and riders knew how to use it. Then, in ...

SEPTA reported its largest one-year drop in serious crimes in the authority’s history, said SEPTA Police Chief Charles Lawson at a press conference on Thursday. The authority had a 33% decrease ...

The transit authority is close to spending an additional $211 million for a different company to update the system, at a time when its finances are precarious and officials are negotiating in ...