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The Airport Line opened on April 28, 1985, as SEPTA R1, providing service from Center City to Philadelphia International Airport. [2] By its twentieth anniversary in 2005, the line had carried over 20 million passengers to and from the airport. The line splits from Amtrak's Northeast Corridor north of Darby and passes over it via a flying junction.
SEPTA lists 117 bus routes [13] throughout Southeastern Pennsylvania, with most routes being within Philadelphia. Some of SEPTA's bus routes run 24 hours a day ("Night Owl" service), although most routes end by late night. SEPTA's bus service consists of its City Division routes within Philadelphia and parts of the suburbs and Suburban Division ...
Route Terminal A Terminal B Via I-78, US 22, PA 33, I-78, and PA 412: Port Authority Bus Terminal (full-time) Lower Manhattan-Wall St. (rush hours only) Jersey City-Newport Centre (rush hours only) JFK Airport (2 runs per day) Allentown (full route) Via I-78, US 202, NJ 12, NJ 29, US 202, PA 313: Port Authority Bus Terminal: Quakertown via ...
The northern terminus was cut back to Front & Spencer Sts. on January 22, 1967. A new branch of the route to Norris & Belgrade Sts. began on September 5, 1976, replacing Route 8 bus service (former streetcar line). Service was extended to the Fern Rock Transportation Center on January 31, 1982, replacing former Route XO bus service.
Bus service between West Chester and Coatesville was a replacement for the previous trolley service operated by West Chester Traction. SEPTA replaced two of the routes with their own bus service. Route 122 service was replaced by SEPTA's Route 91 in July 1982, after only one year of service. Route 91 was eliminated due to lack of ridership.
On March 23, 2023, SEPTA released a new draft plan for Bus Revolution, in which Route 103 would be merged with Route 115 to serve the Philadelphia International Airport. The final plan, approved on May 23, 2024, replaced Route 103 with parts of Routes 105, 115, and 126; Route 115 would use the busway. [11] [12]
Pennsylvania Route 291 (PA 291) is an east–west state route in Pennsylvania that runs from U.S. Route 13 (US 13) and US 13 Business (US 13 Bus.) in Trainer, Delaware County, east to Interstate 76 (I-76) in South Philadelphia near the Walt Whitman Bridge and the South Philadelphia Sports Complex.
Although some of Philadelphia's transit lines date to the 19th century and the SEPTA agency began operations in 1965, the transit network itself had no formal name until 2024, when it was named "SEPTA Metro" as part of an effort to make the system easier to navigate. The effort is also replacing each line's name with a single letter, plus a ...