A response to Guy Ciarcocchi — SEPTA is, in fact, broke

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A response to Guy Ciarcocchi — SEPTA is, in fact, broke Zachary Brownlee August 28, 2025 August 27, 2025

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In a recent column, Guy Ciarrocchi argues that SEPTA is “broken, not broke”. I disagree and believe that Mr. Ciarrocchi’s piece is missing crucial information and details around SEPTA’s operations and the funding crisis, so I am writing to set the record straight: SEPTA is broke, not broken.

In his piece, Mr. Ciarrocchi writes that the current budget crisis for SEPTA is due to poor planning and poor administration on SEPTA’s part, that SEPTA is currently sitting on $400 million dollars, and that SEPTA and the Democrats have manufactured this cris