A few more students may have experienced first-day-of-school grogginess Monday than on the typical start of a new school year.

In addition to the usual adjustments for the end of summer break and moves to new schools, some students had to get up even earlier than usual to adapt to SEPTA service cuts and schedule changes that went into effect Sunday and Monday .

Camille Ballard, a junior at the Philadelphia High School for Creative and Performing Arts (CAPA), said she had to alter her schedule and route because SEPTA reduced the frequency of bus and train departures and shortened some lines.

For years, she’s made the roughly hourlong trip from her home in Olney by taking a bus, the Metro/Broad Street Line, and another bus — but that last route no longer extends all the way to her schoo

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