SEPTA proposes $618 million capital budget for FY 2022.
I don't know how that compares to other transit networks. Can anyone provide what other agencies spend?
The keys coming out of the budget is the trolley modernize program and the extension to KOP.
Other notes
$97.3 million to begin to replace around 200 cars on the Market-Frankford Line by 2033. They are about 25 years old and require “extensive overhaul” and creative work by the mechanics in SEPTA’s shops to keep them going, said Robert Lund, deputy general manager of SEPTA for operations. “It’s just like an old used car — every year it’s more expensive to keep them reliable and safe,” Lund said. “It’s the same concept here. We don’t want to be forced to start pulling vehicles out of service; we won’t run them if we don’t feel they’re safe.”
$25 million for bus route infrastructure over 12 years, including new shelters, benches, heating, and other amenities. SEPTA’s plans rely on delicate negotiations with lawmakers in Harrisburg to come up with a stable transit funding stream by fiscal year 2023, when the agency will no longer be receiving $450 million annually from the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Around SEPTA and Gov. Tom Wolf’s office, this is known as the “fiscal cliff.”
https://www.inquirer.com/transportation ... 10426.html
https://whyy.org/articles/septa-propose ... al-budget/
I don't know how that compares to other transit networks. Can anyone provide what other agencies spend?
The keys coming out of the budget is the trolley modernize program and the extension to KOP.
Other notes
$97.3 million to begin to replace around 200 cars on the Market-Frankford Line by 2033. They are about 25 years old and require “extensive overhaul” and creative work by the mechanics in SEPTA’s shops to keep them going, said Robert Lund, deputy general manager of SEPTA for operations. “It’s just like an old used car — every year it’s more expensive to keep them reliable and safe,” Lund said. “It’s the same concept here. We don’t want to be forced to start pulling vehicles out of service; we won’t run them if we don’t feel they’re safe.”
$25 million for bus route infrastructure over 12 years, including new shelters, benches, heating, and other amenities. SEPTA’s plans rely on delicate negotiations with lawmakers in Harrisburg to come up with a stable transit funding stream by fiscal year 2023, when the agency will no longer be receiving $450 million annually from the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Around SEPTA and Gov. Tom Wolf’s office, this is known as the “fiscal cliff.”
https://www.inquirer.com/transportation ... 10426.html
https://whyy.org/articles/septa-propose ... al-budget/