Commuters. A lot of standing room only. Crowded trains and awkward schedules. Reporter help is finally on the way after septa pulled a third of its train fleet 120 silver liner train cars side lined for repairs. Pictures from septa show engineers now doing final testing on a potential fix of those defective cars. If all goes according to plan, repaired train cars will be fixed and phased in by the end of the month. We see what our customers are going through. Its nothing we ever wanted for them. Reporter the problems costing septa a Million Dollars a month. Its costing passengers lots of lot of time. Its been kind of hectic. Everyone is getting little ant antsy. Reporter now september to says this train defect problem is costing the authority more than a Million Dollars a month. Costs theyll try to get recovered by the rail car manufacturer who caused those defects. Lucy . All right. Well see what happens. Thank you, chris. Developing to night in Atlantic City another casino set to clo
Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 11. New plan tonight could finally spell relief for thousands of commuters across our area. It has been weeks of living through a travel nightmare waiting in long lines and crowding on to packed trains. Septa now says it may finally have a fix for its defective cars. Good evening to you, im lucy noland. The fix its not a quick one but rider cos see a difference as of next month. Fox 29s chris oh com is live at septa headquarters with whats up. Chris . Reporter thats right, lucy. Septa train commuters at least now have some answers as to when their Train Service will return back to normal. Septa management announcing to customers today that full service should return by sometime in october. Its been a long and frustrating summer so far for septa rail commuters. A lot of standing room only. Crowded trains and awkward schedules. Reporter help is finally on the way after septa pulled a third of its train fleet 120 silver liner tr