After years of being operated and maintained by Alstom (previously Bombardier Transportation), NJ Transit now directly owns, operates, and maintains the River LINE. The goal is to transition full operation of the River LINE over to NJ Transit from Alstom by the end of the year. “NJ TRANSIT and Alstom are committed to providing safe…
Philadelphia, PA: After two weeks of downtime, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, or SEPTA, has been ordered to restore all previously cut service, and hold off additional service cuts for the time being. This means all service cuts that were done on August 24th have to be reversed. Fare increases that were scheduled for September 1st are to…
Philadelphia, PA – Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) has officially began cutting service in mass today, the first round of cuts mostly affect City bus service, while tomorrow will begin the suburban cuts. Regional Rail service will begin being cut September 2nd. On top of this, Regional Rail service has been severely affected by vehicle shortages. Here’s…
Philadelphia, PA It’s the end of an era as the last SEPTA 2009 New Flyer DE40LF, 8312, has retired from revenue service. Why is this significant? This particular fleet of buses was the last of SEPTA’s legacy New Flyer fleet from 2000-2009 of New Flyer XX40LF buses, sporting the original “flat face” design from New…
Philadelphia, PA: SEPTA will be closing the Subway-Surface trolley tunnel for a full month starting today, July 11th 2025 at 10 pm, to perform extensive maintenance. This means all stations east of 40th Street on the SEPTA Metro and lines will not be served. In this event, all lines will be diverted to serve 40th…
Philadelphia, PA SEPTA Access branded buses hit the streets! SEPTA Access is the official branding for SEPTA’s paratransit service. In a statement dating back to July 1st, 2024, SEPTA Access is the official branding of the service, but buses will continue to wear “CCT Connect” branding until “further notice” Well further notice is now, as…
Philadelphia, PA – After about a year of acceptance, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority has finally debut their New Flyer XHE40 Buses in revenue service on route 23. In April 2024, SEPTA ceremoniously retired their final fully diesel bus and simultaneously introduced Philadelphians to the first hydrogen fuel cell-electric bus SEPTA owned. At the time, SEPTA…
Philadelphia, PA – Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) has had an annual service plan today, addressing the massive budget shortfall that will affect the system. While most are fully aware of the regional rail cuts that are proposed, the cuts proposed to the bus system is massive as well, and will drastically affect the system….
NJ Transit and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET) have reached an agreement, and the three-day NJ Transit Strike is to end. NJ Transit says regular NJ Transit Rail service is to resume on Tuesday, May 20th. Although an agreement was reached, the next 24 hours will be dedicated to making sure all…
Edit: May 18th – The NJ Transit Rail Strike has ENDEDAs of right now, New Jersey Transit‘s Railroad, the nation’s largest state-wide railroad operation, is on strike. “Due to a strike by locomotive engineers represented by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen (BLET), all NJ TRANSIT rail service is currently suspended” – NJ Transit…
Baltimore, Maryland It’s official, the restyled era is over as the final 2010 DE40LFRs have officially retired from MTA Maryland revenue service. The LFR fleet was Baltimore’s first ever batch of hybrid buses, and the only fleet of buses where each year brought a different look. When the first batch of DE40LFRs were ordered, MTA…
Philadelphia, PA: Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority or SEPTA has made the first major step towards changing the transit system. Starting February 23rd, 2025, SEPTA will finally retire the lettered bus routes in favor of numbers. On this same date, SEPTA will officially begin using the SEPTA Metro branding thorough the system. To start, SEPTA is…