![]() The transit agency will begin soliciting bids for a “team of consultants” next month, said long-range planning manager Jennifer Barr, and that group will spend the next two to three years working on a comprehensive overhaul of how SEPTA operates its buses. With the report in hand, SEPTA appears ready to act to staunch the bus-ridership bleed. Now, after a yearlong examination, transit consultant Jarrett Walker has turned in his official diagnosis: A complete bus-network redesign that may include amputating SEPTA’s transfer fees and Girard Avenue’s Route 15 trolley. Though overall ridership has remained relatively flat, bus trips have fallen 33 million, or 17 percent, over the last five years. Buses are the sick man of SEPTA’s transit options.
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