Former Mayor Jim Kenney on Tuesday urged his successor’s administration to continue the experimental Zero Fare program that ...

Mayor Cherelle L. Parker's proposed budget would slash a benefit that provides free SEPTA passes to city employees, a perk that the administration has promoted as a help in ...

Zero Fare participants had taken about 6.6 million trips on SEPTA since the program started about 18 months ago.

The commuter benefit gives eligibility to around 22,000 city workers, but it’s unclear whether the city will be able to spend less for the same program this year.

To continue the free transportation program for low-income Philadelphians, it would cost the city $30 million each year.

Councilmember Nicolas O'Rourke wants to create the Philadelphia Transit Access Fund, a trust for free or reduced-fare transit ...

Zero Fare is a two-year pilot program that gives free SEPTA bus, train, trolley and Regional Rail rides to people who live near the poverty line. But it appears the city is not planning to renew the ...

Mayor Cherelle L. Parker’s proposal to cut the city’s business income and receipts tax (BIRT), based off the Philadelphia Tax ...

Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker, for the second time in her career ... over the course of five years, to help SEPTA overcome its financial woes. Along with this, the city would also support ...

Philadelphia's commerce chief Alba Martinez is stepping down from her post effective May 1 to produce an original musical, ...