After violent weekend, SEPTA riders raise concerns about safety 02:29. PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- While Corey Walker waited for his bus in North Philadelphia, the two violent incidents that happened at ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Philadelphia City Council is calling for SEPTA to take action after several violent and high-profile incidents unfolded on its trains and busses this year. The meeting was ...

Assaults on SEPTA workers — including both physical and verbal attacks — rose from 98 incidents in 2018 to an all-time high of 572 in 2023, according to SEPTA's logs.

A SEPTA Manayunk/Norristown Line train traveling from Allegheny Station in Philadelphia to Center City was evacuated due to a transformer fire, officials said on Wednesday. The incident happened at ...

SEPTA employees are undergoing safety reinforcement training this week following several recent accidents in the Philadelphia area and surrounding suburbs involving their vehicles. The eight-week ...

There have been over 2,100 attacks on SEPTA workers since 2019, including verbal harassment and physical violence, according to SEPTA reports and assaults data recently reviewed by the Federal Transit ...

SEPTA officials will announce new safety and security measures Thursday. ... It comes at a time SEPTA has seen a spike in incidents and a slight rebound in fares at about 53% of pre-pandemic levels.

SEPTA spokesperson Andrew Busch said all the incidents have different causes, but safety training will be implemented for all employees. “There isn’t any immediate indication that we have any one ...

SEPTA partnered with ELERTS, a company that claims to have “mobile alert systems empower people to quickly report safety and security incidents,” for the app. ELERTS is known for “See ...

SEPTA (Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority) said on July 16 it will implement “additional initiatives and a series of corrective action plans (CAPs)” in response to the Federal Transit ...

SEPTA officials are implementing safety training for some 9,000 workers in the wake of a half dozen crashes involving their vehicles. Spokesperson Andrew Busch said every agency employee will have a ...

SEPTA says all employees will attend mandatory safety training over the next eight weeks. Each employee will spend a full day going over safety concerns, in response to the recent string of ...