Consumer Education & Protective Ass'n v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority

Opinion by

Judge Colins,

The Consumer Education and Protective Association (CEPA)1 appeals from an order of the Philadelphia *145County Court of Common Pleas (trial court) which affirmed the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority’s (SEPTA) fare increases effective in July, 1986, and denied CEPA’s request for access to certain documents and information in SEPTAs control.

The Pennsylvania Urban Mass Transportation Law (Act 101)2 sets forth SEPTAs legal powers and responsibilities. Among those powers, Section 303(d)(9)3 of Act 101 permits SEPTA “[t]o fix, alter, charge and collect fares,…