Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority‘s new regional rail schedules go into effect today, July 5th 2026. Highlights of the new schedules include…. For more information and details on the changes and improvements, check SEPTA’s official website, and more specifically, the Regional Rail section.
Conshohocken, PA: After 15 years of exclusively operating forty-foot buses, SEPTA’s Frontier Depot finally houses smaller buses, meant to operate on lower ridership routes. These buses come in the form of SEPTA’s 2016 New Flyer MD30s which prevously only operated on contracted routes 310, LUCY, and the Cornwells Heights Parking Lot Shuttles. Unlike the forty-foot…
SEPTA‘s Summer 2026 schedules go into effect today, June 14th 2026. This schedule change mostly focuses on enhancements to service to the FIFA World Cup Fan Festival at Lemon Hill. Highlights include: The changes to routes 32 and 48 will revert in the fall schedule changes, but the changes to route 52 are permanent. The…
Philadelphia, PA Starting tonight, at 10pm, all SEPTA Metro Trolley service will continue overnight into the tunnel to 15th St / City Hall Station. Regular Sunday and Monday night diversions to 40th Street will still remain. After the 2025 Trolley Tunnel Blitz, SEPTA discovered many faults in the trolley wires and sliders in the tunnel,…
Philadelphia, PA After three long years of rebuilding, SEPTA Metro Route T5 (former route 36) will return to 80th St/Eastwick Loop on May 24th, 2026 In Spring 2022, the City of Philadelphia started what is known as the “Island Avenue Improvement Program” which involved rebuilding much of Island Avenue, including SEPTA Metro Route T5 (former…
Philadelphia, PA on June 14th, SEPTA Route 52 is undergoing the first major change to the system ahead of the New Bus Network that is to debut starting Fall 2026. As part of this change, the routing through Overbrook on northbound trips is being discontinued, and all trips that originally terminated at 54th Street and…
Philadelphia, PA: As of December 14th, 2025, the new “State of the Art” Wissahickon Transit Center is now open. This is a major milestone for not just SEPTA, but the city of Philadelphia as well. The original Wissahickon Transit Center was a trolley electricity substation, and was converted to a transit loop in the ’60s,…
Philadelphia, PA – SEPTA GO branded Ford E450 cutaway buses were spotted at the Germantown Bus Depot today. SEPTA micro-transit service was announced during the Bus Revolution (now called the “Better Bus Initiative”) unveiling. SEPTA GO, when it comes, will take over service in underserved areas like Bristol, Lansdale, and Paoli. These Ford buses are…
After years of being operated and maintained by Alstom (previously Bombardier Transportation), NJ Transit now directly owns, operates, and maintains the River LINE. The goal is to transition full operation of the River LINE over to NJ Transit from Alstom by the end of the year. “NJ TRANSIT and Alstom are committed to providing safe…
Philadelphia, PA: After two weeks of downtime, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, or SEPTA, has been ordered to restore all previously cut service, and hold off additional service cuts for the time being. This means all service cuts that were done on August 24th have to be reversed. Fare increases that were scheduled for September 1st are to…
Philadelphia, PA – Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) has officially began cutting service in mass today, the first round of cuts mostly affect City bus service, while tomorrow will begin the suburban cuts. Regional Rail service will begin being cut September 2nd. On top of this, Regional Rail service has been severely affected by vehicle shortages. Here’s…
Philadelphia, PA It’s the end of an era as the last SEPTA 2009 New Flyer DE40LF, 8312, has retired from revenue service. Why is this significant? This particular fleet of buses was the last of SEPTA’s legacy New Flyer fleet from 2000-2009 of New Flyer XX40LF buses, sporting the original “flat face” design from New…
