As Philadelphia City Council held the latest in its ongoing schedule of hearings on the budget for the coming year, Leslie Richards, the CEO and general manager of SEPTA, addressed elected officials to detail a looming multimillion deficit for the mass transit provider. There were plenty of questions in City Hall on Wednesday as councilmembers

SEPTA has long been underfunded but, that may soon be improving. Not long ago, the mass transit provider sounded the alert that it faced a “death spiral,” after years of underfunding has SEPTA set to spend it’s last share of federal COVID funding by April. Without new funding, SEPTA officials warned riders could be looking