SEPTA cannot pause massive service cuts in the wake of the Senate’s passage of legislation to use money designated for transit capital projects as temporary operating funds, the transit agency’s top executive said Wednesday.

With no funding deal reached, deep service cuts to SEPTA bus, train and trolley services in the Philadelphia region are expected to begin Aug. 24.

Pennsylvania lawmakers remain at a standstill after failing again to pass a transportation bill to fund SEPTA as the transit agency faces the possibility for major service cuts.

Faced with a $213M budget crisis, SEPTA will move forward with sweeping service cuts after the deadline has past to secure crucial funding from Pennsylvania leaders.

Parker framed the pending SEPTA service cuts as dire, but stopped short of detailing the city’s plans should they move forward.

A Pennsylvania House committee voted down a bill the Republican-controlled Senate passed to infuse new funding into SEPTA.

Governor Josh Shapiro came to SEPTA's headquarters in Center City Sunday afternoon to urge lawmakers to immediately act on the latest mass transit funding bill.