Still no contract for SEPTA transit workers SEPTA General Manager Jack Leary reported some progress Monday, as talks continue between SEPTA and its largest 5,300-member union. "I think there's still reason to be positive. We haven't had any kind of a work stoppage, and that's a good sign," Leary told The Associated Press Monday. The continuing contract negotiations are an effort to avert a potential strike which would shut down buses, subways and trolleys and leave the city's 450,000 weekday passengers searching for other ways to get around. Another SEPTA contract covering 140 TWU drivers, mechanics and custodians in the suburban Frontier district in Bucks and Montgomery counties expired on April 6, and no new contract has replaced it. And in the Victory district, which consists of 22 routes in Delaware and Chester counties, SEPTA and the union are still talking over a contract for 180 clerical and maintenance workers which expired on April 2. -- Lindsay Faber
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