SEPTA Funding To Be Addressed At Expert Roundtable Event Along Main Line

ARDMORE, PA — A roundtable featuring a variety of experts will discuss the future of SEPTA funding in Lower Merion Township next week.

State Rep. Mary Jo Daley is hosting the event from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. June 5 at the Lower Merion Township Building.

Experts are scheduled to speak and discuss the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority and its economic impact.

Speaker set to participate are:

• Ariella Maron — executive director, Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission.
• Richard Voith — president and chair of Board of E-Consult.
• Scott Sauer — SEPTA general manager.
• Bernard Dagenais — president, Main Line Chamber of Commerce.
• Todd M. Sinai — president, Lower Merion Township Board of Commissioners; professor of real estate and business economics and public policy (with tenure), The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
• Peter Staz — developer of transit oriented developments, Cricket Flats Apartments in Ardmore.

Robert Previdi, member of Pennsylvania Transportation Advisory Committee and Save the Train at Save the Train, will moderate the roundtable.

There will also be a question-and-answer period for media following the roundtable.

According to Daley's office, for every dollar spent on mass transit and SEPTA, $5 more are created in our economy. For every million dollars invested, 500 direct jobs are created, and thousands of downstream jobs are created at suppliers, vendors and support industries, and every dollar invested in transit results in $3 being added in new business sales, her office said.

The Lower Merion Township Building 75 E. Lancaster Ave. in Ardmore.