Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, or SEPTA for short, operates bus, trolley, trackless trolley, subway/rapid transit, and commuter rail service in the southeastern part of Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia, PA – After about a year of acceptance, Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority has finally debut their New Flyer XHE40 Buses in revenue service on route 23. In April 2024, SEPTA ceremoniously retired their final fully diesel bus and simultaneously introduced Philadelphians to the first hydrogen fuel cell-electric bus SEPTA owned. At the time, SEPTA…
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 Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, aka SEPTA, has announced earlier this week that Hitachi Rail STS will be building new Metro cars on SEPTA’s heaviest line. This is a base $724.3 million contract for 200 rail cars, with potential for an additional 40 cars. The pilot set of this order is due in 2029,…
Philadelphia, PA: After over four years of being out of service for repair, SEPTA’s fleet of historic Presidential Conference Committee (PCC) trolley cars have finally returned to the rails today, June 16th, 2024. In February 2020, SEPTA pulled all eighteen PCC-II trolley cars out of service due to, at the time, only 4 being in…
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…
Cornwells Heights, PA: The SEPTA 2024 Bus Roadeo was today, and of course DashTransit was there. This particular article is more on my opinions rather than facts and figures. I’ve attended almost every SEPTA Roadeo since 2011, with the exception of 2013, 2016, and 2018. As noted in my SEPTA 2022 bus Roadeo video the…
Virtual Transit Center is bringing back photo of the month instead of featured photos. The photo of the month will be chosen based on community interest as well as a vote. This photo of SEPTA‘s brand new 2024 New Flyer “Xcelsior CHARGE H2” XHE40 #701 was selected, as it represents the beginning of SEPTA’s massive…
Philadelphia, PA – Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority celebrated the retirement of their last straight-diesel bus. The celebration took place in front of the SEPTA Headquarters building, where SEPTA sent their last forty-foot straight diesel bus, the New Flyer D40LF, into the sunset, and introduced the riding public to their brand-new hydrogen fuel cell bus. Although…
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 Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA)‘s brand new BAE powered New Flyer XDE40s have finally entered revenue service. In November 2021, SEPTA approved the purchase of 220 New Flyer XDE40 hybrid buses, with an additional 120 buses being confirmed to arrive with the FY2024 budget. The first of these 340 buses arrived on SEPTA…
Philadelphia, PA As of today, August 13th, 2022, SEPTA has retired the FIRST New Flyer DE40LF “second gen” from revenue service. From now on, this post will keep track of all retirements and update daily with all confirmed changes. The 2008 New Flyer DE40LF buses are confirmed to be replaced by the upcoming 2022 New…
