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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Gov. Josh Shapiro's administration on Monday approved the use of hundreds of millions of dollars in capital project funding for Philadelphia’s public transit agency to help it restore bus, trolley and rail services that it had eliminated to shore up its deficit-riddled finances.

The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority had made the request to comply with a judge's order to undo the two-week-old cuts.

In his letter to SEPTA, Shapiro's transportation secretary, Mike Carroll, called the authority's request “both predictable and rueful” after Shapiro and Democratic lawmakers had been unable for the past two years to persuade enough Republican lawmakers to approve hundreds of millions more dollars in

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