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CBS News: SEPTA begins charging for parking on weekends, holidays at lots and garages – SEPTA is reinstating parking fees at its parking lots and garages in another effort to reel in more money before impending service cuts. Beginning Monday, SEPTA will charge $2 for surfaced lots and $4 for garages, on both weekends and holidays.
Plan Philly: Penn’s Landing park over I-95 in Philly is taking shape. Here’s what to know – After a series of overnight closures, a busy section of I-95 will reopen at the end of this week with a portion of the new overhead cap completed. The entire cap, consisting of three sections, is expected to be completed by 2029. The Delaware River Waterfront Corporation (DRWC), under a separate contract and in partnership with the city, will build a new park that will include green space situated over the then-completed I-95 cap.
Chalkbeat: Planned SEPTA service cuts will mean slower, less reliable commutes for Philly students – Philly middle and high school students, who are eligible for free SEPTA cards via a contract with the school district and SEPTA, are generally expected to use public transportation to get to school. These students are slated to experience unreliable transport, delays and inefficient routes if planned SEPTA cuts go through. Philadelphia’s Northeast neighborhoods, which show high student ridership on public transport, are expected to be hit particularly hard by cuts.
Other Stories
The Inquirer: From alerting riders to changing Google Maps, here’s how SEPTA is preparing for service cuts
StreetsBlog USA: Five of the Ugliest Transportation Policies In the ‘Big, Beautiful’ Bill
Metro Philadelphia: SEPTA to shut down Center City trolley tunnel for maintenance
6abc: Meter price increase takes effect in Center City Philadelphia
PlanPhilly: Passenger count at Wilmington Airport tops half a million amid expansion efforts
