by Miles Taylor | Jun 16, 2019 | Miles on SEPTA
Uh-oh…better make this quick, I’m in enemy territory! This is 33rd Street Station. One of the two station entrances. A block east from the El’s 34th Street Station, 33rd Street is placed just before the trolley tracks join Market Street. The two...
by Miles Taylor | Jun 9, 2019 | Miles on SEPTA
Boy oh boy oh boy, did SEPTA botch this one up. They waited until two days before these changes are scheduled to occur to put the update on the website, and there are a ton of missing links and false information and typos and oh geez, we have a lot to get through....
by Miles Taylor | Jun 6, 2019 | Miles on SEPTA
The 79 is a pretty good route to begin with: it’s a short, generally frequent, well-used crosstown straight across South Philadelphia on Snyder Ave. Sure, it used trackless trolleys until 2003, and it’s a real bummer that it doesn’t use them anymore,...
by Miles Taylor | May 25, 2019 | Miles on SEPTA
It’s the age-old question that’s been asked for centuries: what’s the best way of getting to the South Philadelphia malls? Scientists generally agree that it’s most efficient to hop on a southbound Broad Street Line train armed with an app to...
by Miles Taylor | May 12, 2019 | Miles on SEPTA
Media seems like such a natural place to end a Regional Rail line. It’s a sizeable, dense town, after all – the county seat of Delco! And yet…the line goes one stop further to a little station in the middle of nowhere called Elwyn. Elwyn is a weird...
by Miles Taylor | May 5, 2019 | Miles on SEPTA
Long story short: I happen to have reviewed all of the 101/102 stations from Fairfield Ave to Drexel Hill Junction. Might as well marathon them! Fairfield Ave. Fairfield Ave is stupidly close to 69th Street. It is a 0.2 mile, 5-minute walk from Fairfield Ave to 69th...
