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City Hall station is a SEPTA subway station in Philadelphia. Located in Center City underneath City Hall, it serves the Broad Street Line. It is the busiest station on the line, serving 57,000 passengers daily. [2] City Hall station is served by local, express, and special "Sport Express" trains.
A new Philadelphia Transportation Company was formed in 1940 to assume PRT's business. National City Lines (NCL) took over management of the PTC on March 1, 1955, and began a program of converting streetcar lines to bus routes. SEPTA was created in 1962, and purchased PTC's transit operations on September 30, 1968.
SEPTA upgraded its website in late 2023, [9] [10] before the planned rollout of SEPTA Metro in 2024. [11] SEPTA also upgraded their app to reflect the changes in late 2024. [12] The first station to get new signs was Drexel Station at 30th Street in February 2024, [13] followed by Wyoming Station on the B1 on January 4, 2025. [14]
The station's street-level entrance from Dilworth Park. In 2003, SEPTA rebuilt the station escalators, for which a lawsuit was filed by the Disabled in Action of Pennsylvania, citing that renovating one critical component would require the rest of the station complex (including the City Hall station on the Broad Street Line) to be renovated for ADA accessibility as per building code requirements.
The Market–Frankford Line (MFL), [a] currently rebranding as the L, [b] is a rapid transit line in the SEPTA Metro network in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.The MFL runs from the 69th Street Transportation Center in Upper Darby, just outside of West Philadelphia, through Center City Philadelphia to the Frankford Transportation Center in Near Northeast Philadelphia.
The City Hall station opened on October 27, 1904, as the southern terminal station of the original 28-station New York City Subway line to 145th Street on the West Side Branch, now the Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line. [7]: 186 [3] At the time, the station was called "City Hall Loop". [5]
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This concourse has SEPTA ticket offices, retail shops and restaurants, and access to other SEPTA stations and to several Center City buildings. The connections, via the large Center City Concourse, include the Broad Street Line at City Hall station , the Market–Frankford Line , Subway-Surface Lines at the 15th Street station , and the PATCO ...