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Route 23 was once Philadelphia's longest streetcar route, [4] extending south to 11th St. and Pattison Avenue in South Philadelphia, and was one of three suspended by SEPTA in 1992. A restoration of trolley service has been proposed in recent years, with a feasibility study planned between 2021 and 2027. [ 5 ]
The former lawmaker was convicted of driving drunk when he crashed into a minivan in Rockaway Township, New Jersey in 1993, seriously injuring a woman and her 15-year-old daughter. In January 2008 a bill was passed to name Route 23 after the former Congressman.
The original fleet of ten 23-foot-2-inch (7.06 m) Brill "Rail-less Cars" of 1923–24 was replaced in 1935 by eight Brill T30 vehicles, another short vehicle. With the conversion of the major Ridge Avenue route (61) to trolley buses in 1941, Philadelphia Transportation Company (PTC) again turned to Brill for the needed additional vehicles.
The crash occurred at about 10:40 a.m. on Monday when a marked patrol vehicle operated by a borough police officer crashed into another vehicle near the intersection of State Route 23 and Walsh ...
Route 23 north was shut down late Tuesday evening by a crash near the Interstate 287 exchange.
A crash late Tuesday night on Route 23 north in Riverdale left a passenger dead and two injured, the Morris County Prosecutor's Office said.
In the 1980s, SEPTA was in the process of upgrading its subway–surface trolley lines, replacing its fleet of PCCs with new light rail cars. Some lines, such as Routes 6, 50, 53, and 60 were converted to buses, while Routes 15, 23, and 56 continued to use PCCs into the 1990s. In 1992, SEPTA ended streetcar service on these three lines as well.
An Archbold man died in a crash Monday at about 5 a.m. on US Route 23 in Pitt Township. Brady D. Neifer, 25, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a release from the Bucyrus Post of the ...