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The Broad Street Line (BSL), [a] currently rebranding as the B, [b] is a rapid transit line in the SEPTA Metro network in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.The line runs primarily north-south from the Fern Rock Transportation Center in North Philadelphia through Center City Philadelphia to NRG station at Pattison Avenue in South Philadelphia; the latter station provides access to the ...
Along Erie Avenue, he track area has been paved over west of Broad St. Between Broad St. and Frankford Ave. all trolley overhead wires infrastructure has been removed. As mentioned with the Route 23 the same issues are there concerning the Route 56. SEPTA has a plan to purchase new cars and restore tracks, wires, and right of way along Erie Avenue.
Fern Rock serves as the northern terminus and yard for SEPTA's Broad Street Line, as well as a stop for SEPTA Regional Rail's Lansdale/Doylestown Line, Warminster Line, and West Trenton Line. Four bus routes also serve the station. Fern Rock Transportation Center serves as the western terminus for the 28 and 70 bus routes.
In September 2021, SEPTA officials proposed to rebrand its rail transit services to make the system easier to navigate. The lines included the Market–Frankford Line, Broad Street Line, subway–surface trolley lines, Norristown High Speed Line, Route 15 trolley, and Media–Sharon Hill Line.
The Olney Transportation Center (soon to be known as Olney Transit Center; [1] also called Olney Terminal) is a SEPTA bus and subway station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.It is located at the intersection of Broad Street and Olney Avenue in the Logan neighborhood of Northwest Philadelphia.
The first mass transit crossing the line encounters is the Broad Street Line's Girard Station, and two blocks from there crosses the SEPTA Route 23 bus line (which was originally a trolley line that may be restored in the future; however SEPTA has removed all connecting track & overhead wires for Route 23 at this location in 2014 completely ...
The remainder of the route was converted to bus operation on November 5, 1955. The new service ran to Snyder station in South Philadelphia instead of Center City, replacing the Route 81 bus on Passyunk Avenue. Trolley service between Center City and Westinghouse Loop was transferred to Route 36.
City Hall was an original station along the 1928 Broad Street Line and was not designed to be accessible to people with disabilities. In 2003, SEPTA rebuilt the station escalators at the connected 15th Street station on the Market–Frankford Line.