Lottery. Tuesday night, and the big story on action news tonight is septas mass transit plan to take transit to the mass. Live at the station, septa finally disclosed how the new system is going to work. Thats right, jim. After the first plan proved to be a disaster septa thinks it has found a solution. It has a plan b, a lottery system that will be open for a 24hour period for anyone wishing to buy the regional 10 passes. Last week septa placed 350,000 Regional Rail passes up for grabs on the website, but the agency did not anticipate the stampede it would create. A rush ever of people trying to get their hands on tickets, crashing after selling only 201. An e commerce site is not a viable solution. And causing the stampede rush was key in creating plan b. When sunday turns into monday you have 24 hours to submit a submission for a Regional Rail pass. Customers with winning entries receive an email with information on how to complete the transaction. Everyone has the same chance of be
Action news, delaware valleys leading news program with jim gardner. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to ride the rails into philadelphia to see pope francis. And now we know that if you want to ride septa in from the burbs, youre going to have to win the lottery. Tuesday night, and the big story on action news tonight is septas mass transit plan to take transit to the mass. Live at the station septa finally disclosed how the new system is going to work. Thats right, jim. After the first plan proved to be a disaster septa thinks it has found a solution. It has a plan b a lottery system that will be open for a 24hour period for anyone wishing to buy the regional 10 passes. Last week septa placed 350,000 Regional Rail passes up for grabs on the website, but the agency did not anticipate the stampede it would create. A rush ever of people trying to get their hands on tickets, crashing after selling only 201. An e commerce site is not a viable solution. And causing the stampede
Overnight construction. The good news at this hour its in the process of clearing. Everything reopened along 95 northbound between Bridge Street and the cottman avenue interchange. Were getting reports of a crash right behind the Barnes Foundation at 20th and callowhill much thats a good intersection to avoid at this point and not so far away dont forget that theyre in from the ramp from Spring Garden street to the westbound schuylkill is closed for about the next week. That of course because of construction but all the overnight work on 76, the schuylkill expressway has cleared out. Erin is going to tell us more about this awful accident in northeast philadelphia involving a person that was struck by a train. Medical chopper was on the scene and early this morning grant avenue and welsh road are closed basically between krewstown road and bustleton avenue. If i were you i would stay on 63 red lion road to get around that. Also a crash by the Montgomery Church of pennsylvania along mor
Brand. And they allege that the codefendants created sham contracts and made false accounting entries and tax returns, the congressman is also accused of using Campaign Funds to row pay 23,000 of his sons chaka fattah jr. s college debt. And that the congressman accepted money and other items to try to secure ambassadorship. And it should concern people of philadelphia and people that reside in congressman fattahs district but all americans. Reporter and we have not yet heard from congressman fattah he is expected to release a statement shortly. Im live in center city, chad pradelli channel 6 action news. Thank you. We are also following developing news out of Newcastle County where a suspect is in custody after a shooting at the Delaware Park racetrack police were called to the scone at 9 00 this morning and sources say that the suspected shooter is a jockey and the victim a horse trainer and it happened possibly over a dispute over a woman. A man was taken into custody after the shoo
Inside the Daring Mission to save a stranded hiker on a cliff. Everybody sing. Ed sheeran is taking over the plaza for a special holiday concert today july 4th, 2014. C guthrie live3 c3 bienvenidos a today, esta im tamron hall. Raise your hand in youre in for someone. Usual gang. Usual gang increased outside on the plaza. A massive crowd of people, a good crowd but this is epic can we say . Theyve been out all night. You should have seen the disappointment when we showed up zpl were excited about ed on the plaza. Hurricane arthur, the storm raining on a lot of holiday parades and not o to mention barbecues and holiday parades as it moves from the outer banks. Kerry sanders is in Kill Devil Hills. Good morning, kerry. Reporter good morning, tamron. The light has been up for several hours giving emergency officials a chance to really do good assessment of the damage. As we take a look at a picture here. It was snapped on hatteras island, North Carolina highway 12. Perhaps went through th