by Miles Taylor | Sep 27, 2018 | Miles on SEPTA
Today was the grand opening of the Trolley Portal Gardens, so it’s a perfect time to do our review of the 40th Street Portal trolley station! I attended the opening ceremony on behalf of the SEPTA Youth Advisory Council, and it was a great time. Among the...
by Miles Taylor | Sep 20, 2018 | Miles on SEPTA
Ready to ride this express route from Plymouth Meeting Mall to Philadelphia? Ready to experience this super fast express ride into the city? Ready to travel down miles of local roads before running “express” on the infamously trafficked I-76? Yeah, that...
by Miles Taylor | Sep 16, 2018 | Miles on SEPTA
There are two ways of getting from the Norristown Transportation Center to the Plymouth Meeting Mall. One is the 98, which is as reasonably direct as you would expect a suburban bus route to be. The other is the 90. It is a mess. Well, the route starts out normal...
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...
