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The bus terminal is outdoors with a roof on top and serves buses that serve Philadelphia County, Montgomery County, and Bucks County. It also served as a trolley terminal until January 11, 1986 for Ogontz Avenue's Route 6, and was near Sigler Travel, a former Greyhound Lines bus station. Express and local trains both stop at this station.
6.9 (11.1) Chester Avenue Elmwood: Some trips terminate at Yeadon Loop in Yeadon: 30: 1915 Haddington: 65th & Vine Streets Haverford Avenue, Vine Street Callowhill: Rerouted and replaced by bus service 31: 1956 Overbrook Park: Lansdowne & Haverford Loop 63rd Street, Market Street Callowhill: Replaced by bus service 34: 4.8 (7.7) 1890 Angora ...
SEPTA is a regional public transportation authority [17] that operates bus, rapid transit, commuter rail, light rail, and electric trolleybus services for nearly 4 million people in five counties in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It also manages projects that maintain, replace and expand its infrastructure, facilities and vehicles.
The Route 6 trolley, c. 1970s The Route 6 trolley in Cheltenham Township As one of the newer trolleys to be adopted by SEPTA, the Route 6 trolley was established by the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company (PRT) in 1907, although some sources [1] claim it was established in 1924, as the Glenside Line between the Willow Grove Depot and the City Line and Ogontz Avenue via Limekiln Pike.
Delaware Valley Rails: The Railroads and Rail Transit Lines of the Philadelphia Area. John R. Pawson. ISBN 0-9602080-0-3. John F. Tucker Transit History Collection (1895–2002) at Hagley Museum and Library.(includes records of the pre-SEPTA Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company and the Philadelphia Transportation Company for the period 1907–1968.)
An older bus of PHLASH, which operated trolley replicas until 2014. The PHLASH was first introduced in 1994 by then Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell . [ 4 ] Michael Masch , the Philadelphia budget director at the time, helped create the transit line naming it after his favorite Marvel Comics character Flash . [ 5 ]
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SEPTA Metro is an urban rail transit network in and around Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority . The network includes two rapid transit lines, a light metro line, a surface-running trolley line, and a subway–surface trolley line, totaling 78 miles (126 km) [ b ] of rail ...