HARRISBURG — Philadelphia’s public transit agency said Friday that it will restore services that it eliminated after a judge ordered it to undo the two-week-old cuts that were challenged in court as discriminatory toward poor and minority communities.

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority said it is working on a plan to restore service, and it moved to divert funding set aside for capital projects to keep those services intact for another two years.

SEPTA — one of the nation’s largest mass transit agencies — had described the cuts as more drastic than any undertaken by a major transit agency in the U.S. but necessary to deal with a deficit of more than $200 million.

At a news conference, SEPTA’s general manager, Scott Sauer, said the solution wasn’t ideal or sustainable

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