The lastest news about public transportation in the Delware Vallery Area http://your_home_page_url/ Your copyright information Day 4 of the SEPTA strike has come and past, and the Regional Rail has been a bit calmer as people discovered a new way to work, school, shopping, etc.   Willie Brown came up with a potential solution to end the strike, though: All SEPTA has to do is agree to binding arbitration, and "we'll go back to work tonight".  Before you celebrate, though, it will be a "winner-takes-all" award.  Either SEPTA will get what it wants, or the union gets what it wants...there is no middle ground! State Rep. Brendan F. Boyle, D-Phila./Montgomery also wants to see binding arbitration take place between SEPTA and the union.  He is introducing a resolution to the State House of Representatives, and legislatures will vote on it early next week. Meanwhile, Mayor Nutter is steaming.  He's looking into getting a court injunction to get SEPTA workers back to work, using the H1N1 virus as a tool.  Since the city declared a public health emergency last week because of this virus, if it is found that hospital and school visits are down because of the strike, he'll let the judge order the union workers back to work! Read more about it: Fox Philly reports on the Union's proposal Information about the State Rep's proposal http://www.philadelphiatransitvehicles.cjb.net/news.php Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:04:43 MST The past three days were not the best three days for SEPTA and it's commuters. First, SEPTA went on strike at 3:00 AM Tuesday morning Second, yesterday, a Train that was operating on the R5 Paoli line-inbound has caught on fire causing some major delays in service. Also, TWU pickers were blocking the 101-102 trolley as well as the blocking buses from leaving Victory. And today, A Southbound SEPTA R3 train on the SEPTA Main Line struck and killed a SEPTA worker, causing some serious delays on the R3- West Trenton, R5 Doylestown, and R2 Warminster lines!! In addition: Rider65 reported it on the board, which the UTU, the union which victory has, has voted to strike on November 22 if no contract has been reached   Ugh!! I do not want to know what tomorrow will bring!! http://www.philadelphiatransitvehicles.cjb.net/news.php Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:46:13 MST Silverliner II #257 caught on fire on its journey to Philadelphia from Malvern this morning.  The car is toasted, but fortunately everyone was safely evacuated.  School district of Philadelphia buses were brought in to rescue the stranded passengers. Because of the train flambe, service on the Thornale and Cynwyd lines were SUSPENDED for a while, but train #515 was the first train to make it through the scene after the fire was put out. Video here:  http://www.myfoxphilly.com/dpp/news/local_news/Copy_of_Copy_of_110409_Huge_Fire_Hits_SEPTA_R5_Train http://www.philadelphiatransitvehicles.cjb.net/news.php Wed, 04 Nov 2009 06:53:40 MST As of 3:00 AM this morning SEPTA City transit division and Frontier divisions are on strike. More infomation to follow... http://www.philadelphiatransitvehicles.cjb.net/news.php Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:15:27 MST The SEPTA Strike has been adverted for the time to be. As more infomation comes in, we will post it.... http://www.philadelphiatransitvehicles.cjb.net/news.php Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:59:17 MST