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
Will feel like. Yes indeed, will continue day after day. So this is day one of what will probably be so whats the number . The number we chose, we did committee in the early show, a seven out every ten. Cant give it nine or ten, it will be too uncomfortable. Unless youre by the pool with bus stop buddy and muggy the dog. He comes out when it is really humid. And here he is, with a water bottle for bus stop buddy is a good idea. Temperatures in the 70s, we have excessive heat warning through friday. 93 degrees today. Heat index in triple digits in some places, got to take care of yourself and those who need you to take care of them. Sunset time is 8 32, more details coming up, on this upcoming heatwave. Bob kelly . Sue, good morning, everybody, 6 01, this wednesday morning, got an accident, northbound on the new jersey turnpike, at exit number four, thats route 73, in mt. Laurel, new jersey, tying us up. And then of course it is day number two, yesterday, everybody has the horror storie
Is a lot of traffic in the morning. We are stuck in traffic. I feel like bob kelly. We have a jammo on the kings highway. We are trying to make it to bob kelly. Jammo in haddonfield. Mike and alex are stuck in the traffic jam, ring the bell, good morning, haddon field. They will be here in a moment. Look at this crowd here. We are ready to go at kings court in haddonfield where we have the brand new mazda that we will be giving away next week when we go up there at the dell in fairmount park. Just in case mike gets out offhanded, here they come, here comes the trolley, here they are, giving them a big round of applause. They are here. Come on, guys. Here we are. Hello haddonfield. Hi everybody. Hello. I love you right back. I watch every day. I love alex too. Hi alex. Hi. I watch every day good thank you. Bob kelly what is happening. Traffic jam. We have to check timing on the lights there Police Officers will take care of that. Are you guys ready to have some fun today. Yes. All morni
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
Kate, how are you feeling. Are you sweating yet. It took two seconds for me to have a slow drip, it is very, very uncomfortable to say the least. Wait until you see these feels like values. So baking in the unshine right now, high friend, there is nothing to track on storm scan but give it sometime much like we had yesterday you may find a few bubbles that fire up out there of localized showers, maybe thunderstorms as the day progresses. So expect that, meanwhile, our excessive heat you have mentioned a warning in place for parts of the the area and excessive heat watch that takes effect tomorrow. All of those spots shaded in that burnt maroon, you will this be a heat advisory, rest of the day. Tomorrow the watch takes effect. Regardless we are stuck with this. Core of this heat is notable up and down i95 and flanging counties. Look at this it already feels like, well, through go magically right before your very eyes, we see observations update. Almost everyone, feels like it is in the