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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 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.
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PTC fare tokens. The Philadelphia Transportation Company (PTC) was the main public transit operator in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1940 to 1968.A private company, PTC was the successor to the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company (PRT), in operation since 1902, and was the immediate predecessor of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA).
A Butler police car was involved in an accident on Route 23 in Riverdale on Saturday, Feb. 17, 2024. Two vehicles, one a Butler police vehicle, can been seen with heavy front-end damage.
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 ...
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.
When Pennsylvania first legislated routes in 1911, the portion of Germantown Pike between Sandy Hill Road in Plymouth Meeting and Philadelphia was designated as Legislative Route 145. [12] The portion of Germantown Pike from Sandy Hill Road to Philadelphia was designated as US 120 when the U.S. Highway System was created in 1926; US 120 was ...