Pittsburgh considers same request

HARRISBURG — Gov. Josh Shapiro's administration on Monday approved the use of hundreds of millions of dollars in capital project funding for Philadelphia’s public transit agency to help it restore bus, trolley and rail services that it had eliminated to shore up its deficit-riddled finances.

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authorit y — one of the nation’s largest mass transit agencies with 800,000 daily riders — had made the request to comply with a judge’s order to undo the two-week-old cuts. A similar request is likely to come from the state’s next largest public transit agency, Pittsburgh Regional Transit.

SEPTA made the service reductions after Shapiro and Democratic lawmakers had been unable for the past two years to persuade enoug

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