PlanPhilly | SEPTA facing $63 million capital budget shortfall over motorists' lawsuit
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planphilly.comPosted Jan 6, 2019, 10:43 PM UTC
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planphilly.comBullshit call he was in!
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Totally agree the top of your foot is the same as your shin is the same as your knee. He's in.
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Why does Septa get Turnpike tolls???? It's for the Turnpike.
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Because PennDOT receives hundreds of millions of dollars per year from the Turnpike in Act 44 payments, money which is now earmarked for non highway projects due to Act 89.
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This article is slightly inaccurate. From FY 2021 - 2022 onward at least $ 450 million will be transferred from Vehicle Sales Tax revenue to the Public Transportation Trust Fund (PTTF), thus mostly to SEPTA, but in the intervening period, the loss of revenue from the Pennsylvania Turnpike would be a serious problem for transit agencies in Pennsylvania,
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Raise tolls. Adjust gas taxes for inflation. Quit defunding mass transit for the sake of private vehicles.
The Turnpike is also for shipping goods, which you can't do on mass Transit. Also, Turnpike tolls are for the tunrpike. Want Transit Funding, request Transit Funding instead of splitting it with things like Ice Skating Rinks for City Hall. https://econsultsolutions.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/SOE-CCD-Dillworth-TIGER-TD-OCT-4.pdf
https://www.phillyvoice.com/casey-toomey-announce-12-million-grant-complete-schuylkill-river-trail/
Transit Funding, used for pet projects instead of Transit. The Rink is what fucked up Septa's initial key card plan, River Trail also, redirected Speta funding for a "recrational path". so maybe point your anger elsewhere. https://bicyclecoalition.org/circuit-wins-third-tiger-grant-close-key-schuylkill-river-trail-gap/ Because it seems they love to take Septa funding and give it to cyclists now, but I mean that's Mass Transit right? Also, they DO RAISE THE GAS TAX for transit https://bicyclecoalition.org/unique-funding-opportunity-for-bicycle-pedestrian-and-trail-projects-in-pa/
It takes some serious mental gymnastics to look at a discretionary BUILD/TIGER grant for a specific trail bridge and see stolen SEPTA funding.
Calling the Schuylkill River Trail a "pet project" is a big lol
From the Bicycle coaltion, since I speak Gymnastics ...
"Out of 1000 applications received, the U.S. Dept. of Transportation awarded $600 million of federal transportation dollars from the TIGER II program to 70 projects around the country. Roughly 29 percent of TIGER II money went toward road projects, 26 percent for transit, 20 percent for rail projects, 16 percent for ports, four percent for bicycle and pedestrian projects and five percent for planning projects.
Unfortunately, the GREAT-MidAtlantic project, submitted by PA's Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to plan and construct 30 trail segments in PA, NJ and DE was not among those that got awarded. Neither did SEPTA's smart card project (which didn't get a TIGER I grant), or Norfolk Southern's Crescent Corridor project (which did get TIGER I for $105M). Center City District's proposal to do-over Dilworth Plaza as part of the City Hall transit stop renovation project did get an award of $15M toward the $55M full cost of the project. As described in the DOT document released today:,"
http://blog.bicyclecoalition.org/2010/10/tiger-ii-awards-announced.html
Paul Levy was more influential than Septa at the time, now we have an Ice Rink, the same shitty City Hall Station, and a shit fare system years behind.
But I want everything without paying a cent more
Raise the bus fare if the busses are losing money. Why tax the people who aren’t using the fucking bus instead??
Why should SEPTA receive funding from turnpike tolls? Those should benefit the people who pay the tolls and be kept to improve the turnpike.