by Miles Taylor | Sep 12, 2018 | Miles on SEPTA
I wasn’t exactly sure where I was going to go after getting dropped off from the 23 in Chestnut Hill, but lucky for me, there was a 97 leaving right when I arrived! I didn’t think I’d be going to Norristown that day, but the 97 turned out to be a...
by Miles Taylor | Sep 8, 2018 | Miles on SEPTA
This is it. This is the big one. Center City to Chestnut Hill. Over ten miles of local streets. A myriad of different neighborhoods, buildings, and demographics. Let’s do it: the 23. As I mentioned in the last review, I chose Market Street as the transfer point...
by Miles Taylor | Sep 3, 2018 | Miles on SEPTA
What better SEPTA bus route to start out with than the infamous 23/45 combo from South Philly all the way up to Chestnut Hill? Once the world’s supposed longest streetcar route, it got replaced by motor vehicles in 1992 and became just a really really long bus...
by Miles Taylor | Aug 31, 2018 | Miles on SEPTA
Wow, it looks like our first Broad Street Line post is actually taking us to another state! I knew SEPTA went to New Jersey and Delaware, but Oregon is quite a trip! What? It’s just in South Philadelphia? Oh, okay…not nearly as exciting, but South Philly...
by Miles Taylor | Aug 29, 2018 | Miles on SEPTA
For any Bostonians who have ever ridden the Green Line: you have it good. I was like everyone else, thinking that nothing could be worse than the screechy, unorganized, crazy Green Line. Then I rode the SEPTA Subway-Surface Trolleys. Oh, how wrong I was about...
by Miles Taylor | Aug 27, 2018 | Miles on SEPTA
Yes, I fully admit it: I’m getting a fun one out of the way early on. There is no other SEPTA rapid transit station quite like Millbourne, from the fact that it’s at ground level and outside of the City of Philadelphia (two qualities shared only by its...
