SEPTA is likely to start moving forward with dramatic service cuts later this month after Pennsylvania lawmakers failed to come to a deal to help the Philadelphia-based transit system in time to avoid its so-called "doomsday" scenario.

With no funding deal reached, deep service cuts to SEPTA bus, train and trolley services in the Philadelphia region are looking more likely.

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.