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 | 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...
by Miles Taylor | Aug 24, 2018 | Miles on SEPTA
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...
