Shapiro budget includes over $167 million for SEPTA
Harrisburg, PA – Under Governor Shapiro’s 2025-26 proposed budget, transit services in all 67 counties across Pennsylvania would benefit from increased state support. This funding would help create jobs, connect communities, and grow Pennsylvania’s economy — ensuring Pennsylvanians who ride mass transit have a reliable, affordable way to commute to work, go to school, access health care, and travel where they need to go.
The Governor’s 2025–26 budget proposal includes $292 million in new mass transit funding next year, generating $1.5 billion over the next five years. This is the first significant increase in state support for mass transit in more than a decade, benefiting transit systems in every county that serve nearly one million riders each day in rural, urban, and suburban communities across the Commonwealth.
Governor Shapiro’s proposal would not raise taxes. Instead, it would increase the portion of the Sales and Use Tax dedicated to public transit — from 7.68 percent to 9.43 percent — generating $292 million in new annual funding next year and more than $330 million annually by 2029–30.
The additional money from the Governor’s proposal would be distributed to agencies through a legislatively established funding formula.
Here’s how the Governor’s budget proposal would benefit transit agencies across Pennsylvania:
| Transit Agency | Counties Served | Additional Funds |
| Altoona Metro Transit (Amtran) | Blair | $1,050,004 |
| Area Transportation Authority of Northcentral PA (ATA) | Cameron, Clarion, Clearfield, Elk, Jefferson, McKean, Potter | $1,889,184 |
| Beaver County Transit Authority (BCTA) | Beaver | $984,879 |
| Borough of Mt. Carmel (LATS) | Northumberland | $91,857 |
| Borough of Pottstown/Pottstown Area Rapid Transit (PART) | Montgomery | $463,147 |
| Butler Transit Authority (BTA) | Butler | $431,320 |
| Cambria County Transportation Authority (CAMTRAN) | Cambria | $1,740,096 |
| Centre Area Transit Authority (CATA) | Centre | $3,812,318 |
| County of Lackawanna Transit System (COLTS) | Lackawanna | $1,935,476 |
| County of Lebanon Transit Authority (COLT/LT) | Lebanon | $624,157 |
| Crawford Area Transportation Authority (CATA/Venango Transit) | Crawford, Venango | $659,891 |
| Endless Mountains Transportation Authority (EMTA/BeST) | Bradford, Sullivan, Tioga | $562,253 |
| Erie Metropolitan Transportation Authority (EMTA) | Erie | $2,958,229 |
| Fayette Area Coordinated Transit (FACT) | Fayette | $595,727 |
| Hazleton Public Transit (HPT) | Luzerne | $606,006 |
| Indiana County Transit Authority (IndiGO) | Indiana | $521,668 |
| Lehigh and Northampton Transportation Authority (LANta) | Lehigh, Northampton | $6,550,498 |
| Luzerne County Transportation Authority (LCTA) | Luzerne | $2,009,298 |
| Mercer County Regional Council of Governments (MCRCOG)/Shenango Valley Shuttle Service (SVSS) | Mercer | $288,838 |
| Mid Mon Valley Transit Authority (MMVTA) | Washington, Westmoreland | $953,489 |
| Mid County Transit Authority (Town and Country Transit) | Armstrong | $130,886 |
| Monroe County Transit Authority (MCTA) | Monroe | $625,131 |
| New Castle Area Transit Authority (NCATA) | Lawrence | $1,219,320 |
| Pittsburgh Regional Transit (PRT) | Allegheny | $40,067,610 |
| Schuylkill Transit System (STS) | Schuylkill | $415,427 |
| Southcentral Transit Authority (SCTA) | Berks, Lancaster | $5,864,331 |
| Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority (SEPTA) | Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery | $167,732,232 |
| Susquehanna Regional Transit Authority (SRT) | Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, York | $5,716,866 |
| Transit Authority of Warren County (TAWC) | Warren | $238,218 |
| Washington County Transit Authority (WCTA/Freedom Transit) | Washington | $469,756 |
| Westmoreland County Transportation Authority (WCTA) | Westmoreland | $1,169,939 |
| Williamsport River Valley Transit (RVT) | Lycoming | $1,394,950 |
| Shared Ride/Statewide Program Support | All | $38,226,999 |
| TOTAL | $292,000,000 |
More information on public transit and alternative transportation options like ridesharing, biking, and walking, is available on PennDOT’s website. For more information on PennDOT’s ongoing infrastructure projects, visit penndot.pa.gov. Information about the state’s infrastructure and results PennDOT is delivering for Pennsylvanians can be found at penndot.pa.gov/results.
For more information on this commonsense budget and the investments it makes in Pennsylvania, visit shapirobudget.pa.gov.
