Barring an increase in state funding to address a budget gap, SEPTA is 17 days away from reducing service on more than 100 lines across its system.
Leaders at the transit authority — which serves the Philadelphia metro area with trolleys, buses, subways and Regional Rail trains — said in April that service cuts would be coming if new funding cannot fill a $213 million deficit. SEPTA’s board voted in June to approve service cuts and fare increases.
These cuts would begin to take effect on Aug. 24 — one day before School District of Philadelphia students’ first day of the new school year…