Bad news: SEPTA board approved the first round of fare increases set to occur on 12/1/2024. These raises were supposed to occur back in 2020 but the pandemic delayed them due to the influx of money from COVID funds from both the Trump and Biden Administrations. These increases were voted on yesterday during the SEPTA monthly board meeting. As stated these changes goes into effect on December 1st 2024.
here are the changes!
Good news: Today the Governor ordered to flex $153 million in PennDOT to transit. This allows SEPTA to postpone further increases and cuts until July 2025 at the very least. Hopefully by then the State Senate would vote on something between January and then. The Senate session for this year has ended. As stated in the last update while nothing could have been done to avoid any increases. At least the most significant increases were held off for this time around. Also in some other good news the recent fare increases does allow some customers to save some money. For example, those riding from Overbrook into Center City would see some savings as Overbrook would now be a Zone 1 station.