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The trolley line was extended west to West Chester in 1898. The trolley line followed the south side of the turnpike. Following the construction of 69th Street Terminal in Upper Darby in 1907, the route of the West Chester Pike saw increasing suburban development. In 1918, the West Chester Pike was taken over by the state, with the tolls ...
Route 104 is a bus route operated by SEPTA between Upper Darby's 69th Street Transportation Center and the North Campus of West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Route 104 initially was a streetcar line which operated parallel to the West Chester Pike ( PA Route 3 ) and was operated by the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation ...
The two trolley routes run southwest out of the station into the median of Terminal Square, and then via a separate right-of-way until diverging at Drexel Hill Junction. All bus routes at this terminal are operated by SEPTA's Suburban Division and operate west out of the station on West Chester Pike, State Road, or Garrett Road.
Chester Transportation Center, I-95 Industrial Park, Penn State Brandywine, or Wawa station: Chester Pike, 9th Street, Pennell Road Darby to Chester service was formerly Southern Penn Traction Company's trolley service to Chester and Wilmington; Buses replace trolleys December 13, 1938. Red Arrow took control of bus service on June 30, 1960.
The main east–west road to West Chester is West Chester Pike, which begins in Upper Darby Township, Delaware County, just outside Philadelphia, and is part of Pennsylvania Route 3 (PA 3). [38] The West Chester Pike originally existed as a private turnpike connecting Philadelphia and West Chester between 1850 and 1918, when it became a public ...
This section of road has also been known as the Darby–Chester Road and Plank Road. In 1851, the roadway between Chester and Darby was chartered by the state as the Darby and Ridley Turnpike or the Chester Pike, a privately owned turnpike. The turnpike was a plank road with tolls collected at multiple toll houses along the route.
Upper Darby Township, often shortened to Upper Darby, is a home rule township [3] in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, United States.As of the 2020 census, the township had a total population of 85,681, making it the state's sixth-most populated municipality after Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Reading, and Erie. [4]
PA 52 north (Lenape Road) – West Chester: Southern end of PA 52 concurrency: 24.587: 39.569: PA 52 south (Kennett Pike) – Wilmington: Northern end of PA 52 concurrency: Delaware: Chadds Ford–Concord township line: 30.665: 49.351: US 202 / US 322 west (Wilmington–West Chester Pike) – West Chester, Wilmington, DE: Southern end of US 322 ...