Philadelphia Judge Pauses Transit Service Cuts, Allows Fare Hike

A Philadelphia judge ruled Thursday that the state’s largest transit system must temporarily halt all of its current and planned service cuts, while allowing planned fare hikes to move forward.

The decision comes after a lawsuit was filed last week seeking to pause the service changes and a 21.5% fare increase to $2.90 to ride the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, or SEPTA. While all current and future service cuts were ordered to be stopped, the transit agency can proceed with raising the price to ride the system, according to a SEPTA spokesperson.

The sixth largest transit agency in the ...