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NewsNovember 19, 2020

NJ TRANSIT, MTA, Port Authority, Amtrak, and SEPTA Launch Regional ‘Mask Force’

The partnership builds upon regional transit operators’ comprehensive efforts to keep customers and employees healthy and safe throughout the pandemic.

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NewsOctober 8, 2020

FTA Awards $9M to 10 Projects to Advance Transit Innovation, Safety

The Safety Research and Demonstration Program is part of a larger safety research effort at the U.S. Department of Transportation that provides technical and financial support for transit agencies to pursue innovative approaches to eliminate or mitigate safety hazards.

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NewsJuly 31, 2020

SEPTA Launches Fund to Help Families of Employees Impacted by COVID-19

The SEPTA Disaster Relief Memorial Fund was launched in large part due to feedback from employees who wanted a way to help the spouses, children, and other loved ones of co-workers who have died or were severely ill.

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NewsJune 26, 2020

SEPTA Approves Fare Restructuring Plan

The plan has remained focused on equity, affordability, and ease-of-travel for customers, even as the financial challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic mounted.

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Newsby StaffJune 2, 2020

SunTran, SEPTA among FTA Low-No grant awardees

In total, $130 million was awarded to 41 projects in 40 states.

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Newsby StaffFebruary 24, 2020

SEPTA ups service frequency, nixes skip-stop on rail line

The decision to eliminate skip-stop service was made based on a successful pilot program in 2018 and helps address ridership growth.

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Newsby StaffJanuary 29, 2020

Naming rights agreement leads to SEPTA rebranded rail station

Partnership with Penn Medicine represents SEPTA's fourth major station renaming agreement in recent years.

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Newsby StaffNovember 21, 2019

Former board member tapped as next SEPTA GM

Leslie S. Richards, who was voted unanimously by the board, will join SEPTA in January.

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Newsby StaffSeptember 13, 2019

SEPTA GM Knueppel to retire at year's end

Knueppel, who joined SEPTA in 1988 as an entry level structural engineer, will close out a decorated 32-year career at the agency.

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Transit Dispatchesby Charlotte DiBartolomeoSeptember 10, 2019

Amid automation trend, here's why we still need bus drivers

The driverless option will severely impact the four million commercial drivers working in the U.S., according to a 2014 Goldman Sachs report. These figures suggest the loss of 25,000 jobs per month during the height of the autonomous vehicles saturation into the industry.

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