by Miles Taylor | Feb 26, 2020 | Miles on SEPTA
The K really is an odd duck in the SEPTA canon. Forming almost an upside-down U, this route is a crosstown across North Philadelphia that completely overshoots the Broad Street Line, running through some of the northernmost reaches of the city. Despite that, it...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 19, 2020 | Miles on SEPTA
I reported this to SEPTA, so it isn’t an issue anymore, but the station page for the Girard Broad Street Line station showed a map of the Girard Market Frankford Line station! See, this is why you don’t give your stations the same name, because stuff like...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 13, 2020 | Miles on SEPTA
Oof, this might be one of SEPTA’s most beastly City Transit routes. It doesn’t get much crazier than taking a convoluted path from North Philly down into Center City, onward to South Philly, across to the other side of town, and then back up to serve the...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 7, 2020 | Miles on SEPTA, Miles on the MBTA
With plenty of time for shenanigans along the way! (filmed before the Longest Bus Ride...
by Miles Taylor | Feb 4, 2020 | Miles on SEPTA
For a relatively simple and relatively short North Philadelphia crosstown, my 54 sure did get packed. I guess we’ll find out at the end if that’s normal or not… The bus making its way down narrow Cambria Street. I got on an eastbound bus a few blocks...
by Miles Taylor | Jan 30, 2020 | Miles on SEPTA
Yeah, yeah, save the comments. I’m, what, six days late? I mean, technically five days, if you count the fact that a 15 trolley ran at, like, 12:30 AM on Saturday, thus allowing SEPTA to claim that they ran that day and service was “officially”...
