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The list excludes charter buses, private bus operators, paratransit systems, and trolleybus systems. Figures for daily ridership, number of vehicles, and daily vehicle revenue miles are accurate as of 2009 and come from the FTA National Transit Database.
PCC cars were first introduced to Route 15 on Sundays (and later on Saturdays as well) in 1948 using postwar cars at Callowhill Depot that would have been otherwise idle on the weekend. They provided all service on the 15 in June 1955 after a cascade of postwar cars from other lines occurred when used PCC cars were purchased from St. Louis and ...
The service connected with the Route 14 bus at Horizon Boulevard, the Route 56 bus at the Torresdale & Cottman Loop, and the Route 66 trackless trolley at the City Line Loop. Trips on SEPTA Owl Link were free with a SEPTA Key card. The SEPTA Owl Link service started on May 10, 2021, as a pilot program. The service ended on February 12, 2022. [85]
On 3 June 2019, the first electric bus (from New Flyer) went into revenue service on the 35 Jane bus route. [23] On 26 October 2019, Proterra Catalyst BE40 electric buses went into service on the 6 Bay bus route. [24] By September 2020, the BYD K9M buses had arrived, and on 8 September, the first BYD bus went into service on the 116 Morningside ...
Additionally, data from 2012 to 2021 shows that only 5% of deaths in school bus-related crashes were bus passengers, while 70% of deaths in these crashes were people in other cars.
Other reasons prompted the suspension of trolley bus service on routes 29 and 79, in 2003. At the time, the cessation of trolley bus service was expected to be permanent; [13] the 110 AM General vehicles that had provided service on SEPTA's then-five trolley bus routes never returned to service [14] (and all were scrapped in 2006). [15]
A transit bus (also big bus, commuter bus, city bus, town bus, urban bus, stage bus, public bus, public transit bus, or simply bus) is a type of bus used in public transport bus services. Several configurations are used, including low-floor buses , high-floor buses , double-decker buses , articulated buses and midibuses .
Long distance buses remain popular on routes where train tickets are quickly sold out and where the train station is located far from passenger destinations. [41] Since 2019, new bus routes longer than 800 km (500 miles) are restricted by law. [42] [43]