A new city, a whole new transit system! From my home base at the University of Pennsylvania, I’ll be reviewing every bus route and train station on the sprawling SEPTA.
*Full Disclosure: I volunteer on the SEPTA Youth Advisory Council, but all opinions on this blog are my own.
Recent Posts from Miles on SEPTA
90 (Plymouth Meeting Mall to Norristown Transportation Center)
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...
97 (Chestnut Hill – Norristown Transportation Center)
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 strange suburban...
23 (Center City – Chestnut Hill)
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...
45 (Broad-Oregon to Center City)
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 route....
Oregon (BSL)
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 is cool,...
37th Street (Trolleys)
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 Boston's...
Millbourne (MFL)
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 neighbor, 69th...
40th Street (MFL)
40th Street is a station of transition. For example, it's the last underground stop on the Market-Frankford Line before it goes onto its elevated structure further west. It also marks the point where the tall college buildings of University City turn to the row houses...