PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A lawsuit has aimed to force SEPTA to reverse its deep service cuts, claiming they unfairly affect minorities and low-income riders.
Attorney George Bochetto filed the suit against SEPTA in Common Pleas Court Wednesday, on behalf of minority riders who claim cutting bus routes hits them harder. “A couple of our plaintiffs are low-income people that can’t get to school, can’t get to their medical appointments, can’t get to work,” he told KYW Newsradio.
Bochetto alleges SEPTA manufactured the crisis to get more state funding. “They have created a false financial crisis in an attempt to extort more money out of Harrisburg. And they’re using the citizens of Philadelphia as pawns,” he said…