PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The pain SEPTA riders are feeling over the service cuts is likely to get worse next week as the transit agency is set to hike fares by more than 21% Monday. Meanwhile, trolley, bus and train operators are bearing the brunt of riders’ frustrations.
Angry bus riders have endured longer waits and full buses passing up stops. Brian Pollitt, president of Transit Workers Union Local 234, said his members are the first ones those riders see, so that’s who they take it out on.
“The buses are overcrowded. The people are getting irate. And my operators are getting a little worried,” he said. “We get the name-calling, the expletive, expletive, expletive. And it’s all aimed at SEPTA.”…