{"id":13134,"date":"2025-10-24T00:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/13134\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T00:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T00:47:07","slug":"septa-postponing-projects-as-state-budget-woes-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/13134\/","title":{"rendered":"SEPTA postponing projects as state budget woes continue"},"content":{"rendered":"

SEPTA has already paused 44 planned infrastructure projects<\/a> to save $1.8 billion. The combined 49 projects represent more than $2 billion worth of deferred work, adding to over $10 billion in needed repairs and upgrades across the system, according to SEPTA.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cUsing capital funds for operations keeps us moving today, but it pushes those critical investments further down the road,\u201d General Manager Scott Sauer said in a statement. \u201cWe stand ready to continue working with leaders in Harrisburg to develop a long-term solution that addresses both our operating needs and the capital investment so critical to our future.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

This comes as SEPTA faces delays on its Regional Rail lines following an emergency order<\/a> from the Federal Railroad Administration after several recent train fires. The agency is temporarily removing two or more cars<\/a> from service at a time to complete federally mandated inspections and make safety modifications. According to SEPTA spokesperson Andrew Busch, 82 of the system\u2019s 225 Silverliner IV cars have been inspected so far.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are completing about 8 cars per day,\u201d Busch said in an email. \u201cWe don\u2019t have a set end-date for completion, and we are continuing to discuss our options with the FRA as the October 31 deadline approaches.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

Across the river, NJ Transit received the first of 175 new buses<\/a> earlier this month. The remaining vehicles will be delivered by the end of next year as part of an ambitious modernization program<\/a> to improve service.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SEPTA has already paused 44 planned infrastructure projects to save $1.8 billion. The combined 49 projects represent more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10083,69,71,70,2618,10084],"class_list":["post-13134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-pennsylvania-budget","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-septa","tag-septa-budget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}