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The Zero Fare program provides SEPTA access for low-income residents, and the Key Advantage program pays for fares for city ...
Mayor Cherelle Parker had planned to cut funding for both transit subsidies, but now says she's working on keeping them.
Mayor Parker and SEPTA are also discussing extending Zero Fare, which benefits 25,000 low-income Philadelphia residents.
The commuter benefit gives eligibility to around 22,000 city workers, but it’s unclear whether the city will be able to spend less for the same program this year.
The city’s budget proposal put the future of free SEPTA rides for city workers into question, but a new deal ensures the program will remain.
SEPTA said Monday that without a permanent state funding solution to its budget crisis, it will not be able to meet the service demands of the nearly one million visitors ...
The Zero Fare program gave recipients "a chance to breathe, to feed their kids and to live with a little less financial stress," Kenney wrote in an Inquirer op-ed.
Mayor Cherelle L. Parker's proposed budget would slash a benefit that provides free SEPTA passes to city employees, a perk that the administration has promoted as a help in ...