by Miles Taylor | Jun 25, 2019 | Miles on SEPTA
A crosstown route across North Philadelphia from Strawberry Mansion to Olde Richmond? Alright, the 39 sounds pretty good to me! Wait…why does the route have a four-block jog in the eastbound direction only? Ohhhh noooooooo… “SEPTA off duty”?...
by Miles Taylor | Jun 19, 2019 | Miles on SEPTA
It was of the utmost importance that I rode the 3 on a Saturday or Sunday midday. You see, most of the time, it does indeed end at a SEPTA loop at 33rd-Cecil B. Moore, but on weekend middays…yes, weekend middays, it gets extended to the Smith Memorial Playground...
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...
