Riders call SEPTA essential to their lives and plead for state funding

Riders call SEPTA essential to their lives and plead for state funding

Buses, trains and trolleys make their lives possible.  They specifically bought their homes near transit lines.  If their local routes stop operating, they’ll have to buy a second car or move to a different neighborhood.  And they’re demanding that the state Senate give SEPTA the funding it needs to avoid catastrophic cuts. Those were some of the messages that riders and transit advocates repeated over and over at a SEPTA public hearing Monday, …