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SEPTA countered with limits of $35,000 for engineers and $31,000 ($98,000 in 2023) for the other professions. [1] SEPTA also offered a supplemental pay amount to help Conrail employees with the transition to SEPTA, but stated that future pay raises for SEPTA employees would eventually bring former Conrail employees onto the same pay levels. [1]
SEPTA insisted on uing transit operators from the Broad Street Subway to operate Fox Chase–Newtown diesel trains, while Conrail requested that railroad engineers run the service. When a federal court ruled that SEPTA had to use Conrail employees to offer job assurance, SEPTA cancelled Fox Chase–Newtown trains. [ 3 ]
SEPTA's creation provided government subsidies to such operations and thus kept them from closing down. For the railroads, at first it was a matter of paying the existing railroad companies to continue passenger service. In 1966 SEPTA had contracts with the PRR and Reading to continue commuter rail services in the Philadelphia region. [15]
In March 2017, the company was awarded a contract to build 45 train cars for SEPTA at the cost of $137.5 million, with the cars expected to arrive in Philadelphia in 2019. [3] A month later, they had won a contract to build the HR4000 series cars for the Los Angeles Metro Rail, and deliver the entire base order of 64 subway cars by September ...
Prior to the 2008 purchase, SEPTA borrowed an MTA New York City Transit Orion VII hybrid bus # 6365 to evaluate it in service. SEPTA was the first to purchase New Flyer DE40LFs equipped with rooftop HVAC units. SEPTA delivered 525 2017–2022 NFI XDE40 hybrid buses to replace all the diesel buses that were delivered between 2001 and 2004.
SEPTA and Transit Police have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, officials announced, ending a stalemate between the two sides that forced officers to go on strike.
The City of Philadelphia and suburban counties began providing public funds under contract with the PRR and Reading Company for continuation and improvement of regional rail service. Because the Reading's Norristown line was considered the stronger of the two, PRR service was cut back to Manayunk in 1960.
SEPTA. Multi-level cars (manufactured in China and finally assembly in Springfield, MA) for SEPTA Regional Rail lines (order cancelled in April 2024) [14] [15] 4 Pilot cars including 2422 were being built or completed in China. [16] CPTM. 2500 Series fleet, used exclusively on Line 13-Jade.