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…
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…
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: SEPTA will be closing the Subway-Surface trolley tunnel for a full month starting today, July 11th 2025 at 10 pm, to perform extensive maintenance. This means all stations east of 40th Street on the SEPTA Metro and lines will not be served. In this event, all lines will be diverted to serve 40th…
Philadelphia, PA – Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) has had an annual service plan today, addressing the massive budget shortfall that will affect the system. While most are fully aware of the regional rail cuts that are proposed, the cuts proposed to the bus system is massive as well, and will drastically affect the system….
Philadelphia, PA: Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority or SEPTA has made the first major step towards changing the transit system. Starting February 23rd, 2025, SEPTA will finally retire the lettered bus routes in favor of numbers. On this same date, SEPTA will officially begin using the SEPTA Metro branding thorough the system. To start, SEPTA is…
Philadelphia, PA: After years of revisions, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, or SEPTA, has finally approved the “Bus Revolution” which aims to revamp the entire SEPTA bus network, something that hasn’t properly been done since SEPTA was created. These changes will take place starting in June 2025, and continue through the fall of 2025. Contents• Eliminated Routes• Unmodified…
Philadelphia, PA: Yes, you read this correctly. After 3 years of being unclear and uncertain of the fate of the route 91, SEPTA has finally officially announced that route 91 has been discontinued. Well, kinda. You see as of the February, 2023 timetables, SEPTA finally released an updated PDF timetable for the route 91, which…
Philadelphia, PA – SEPTA‘s Boulevard Direct has a new livery that shows the stops of the Boulevard Direct service, as well as a more “in motion” design featuring icons related to SEPTA. This isn’t so much a news post, as it is an excuse to show the new livery. Images below. As of right now,…
