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The SEPTA Regional Rail system (reporting marks SEPA, SPAX) is a commuter rail network owned by SEPTA and serving the Philadelphia metropolitan area. The system has 13 branches and more than 150 active stations in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , its suburbs and satellite towns and cities .
The Paoli/Thorndale Line is the busiest regional rail line in the SEPTA system, carrying approximately 21,000 daily riders each weekday prior to the pandemic. [9] It is also among the longest in the system, stretching out into the far western suburbs of Philadelphia, and as such has express service to some of the outer stations.
SEPTA offers special fares for students in K–12 schools who ride SEPTA to get to school. The SEPTA Key Student Fare Card program provides students with a SEPTA Key card that can be used for up to 8 trips per school day, between 5:30 AM and 8:00 PM. Cards can be upgraded to be used on Regional Rail. [62]
In the case of SEPTA, the authority had to take over 12 rail lines in five counties within the Greater Philadelphia area, a system that had a daily ridership of about 50,000 people. [1] Additionally, SEPTA would have to negotiate new labor agreements with 15 unions, [1] [2] representing roughly 1,500 Conrail employees. [3]
The line passed into Conrail in 1976 and SEPTA in 1983, with passenger service to the Philadelphia International Airport beginning on April 28, 1985. [ 5 ] Infill stations were planned from the beginning of service, two of which were on the Airport Line proper: one at 70th Street, the other one at 84th Street.
The following is a list of commuter rail systems in the United States, ranked by ridership. All figures come from the American Public Transportation Association 's (APTA) Ridership Reports Statistics for the fourth quarter of 2023, [ 1 ] unless otherwise indicated.
The Lansdale/Doylestown Line is a SEPTA Regional Rail line connecting Center City Philadelphia to Doylestown in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.Until 1981, diesel-powered trains continued on the Bethlehem Branch from Lansdale to Quakertown, Bethlehem, and Allentown.
This list of systems in the Americas does not include light rail, even when they are integrated with heavy rail. Daily and annual ridership figures are based on "average weekday unlinked passenger trips" (where transfers between lines are counted as two separate passenger "boardings" or "trips"), unless otherwise indicated (e.g., Mexico City ...