She expressed enthusiasm about the coming change. Route A rider Isabelle Rigollaud of Coatesville exited the bus at West Chester Transportation Center, on her way to work at a local bakery. Isabelle Rigollaud rides the Route A bus three times a week to get to her job in West Chester and wishes the buses ran more than once an hour.
The regional transit agency recently began reimagining its bus routes systemwide as it tries to keep pace with demographic shifts and changes in how people work. The move comes as SEPTA works to stem its own pandemic-related losses while maintaining the services it needs to boost ridership. SEPTA officials estimate the new bus operation will cost $1.19 million, but a route adjustment to the Route 92 bus service to prevent overlapping service between West Whiteland Township and West Chester will offset $313,000. The 25-route division serves Bucks, Chester, and Montgomery counties. The new bus route will expand the 45-year old Frontier Division. So with blessings from PennDOT and Chester County officials, the authority aims to run a new bus service on the route on Aug. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY)Īccording to SEPTA, Krapf “has been unable to document that it can sustain ongoing bus operations” on the route without the extra financial boost, and SEPTA officials can no longer subsidize the route into FY2022. Since April 2020, SEPTA has provided more than $810,000 in subsidies to Krapf to keep the route going and maintain access to essential services after the pandemic crushed ridership.Ī SEPTA bus sits inside a West Chester transportation center. to 11 p.m.īut last year, that revenue took a hit when ridership dropped to about 25% of its pre-pandemic levels. The route typically carries more than 1,200 passengers a day at $2.75 per trip, seven days a week between 5:30 a.m.
The bus route has been under the control of Krapf Transportation, a private transportation company based in West Chester, since 1982 through the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission.
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