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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.
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.
Service on Route Z was a former "Montgomery Bus Lines" service acquired by the Red Arrow in 1936. Due to duplicate service with SEPTA Bus Route 106, route was truncated from Paoli to Rosemont (at SEPTA's Rosemont train station on the Paoli/Thorndale Line) effective June 20, 2016. [2]
Other reasons prompted the suspension of trolley bus service on routes 29 and 79, in 2003. At the time, the cessation of trolley bus service was expected to be permanent; [13] the 110 AM General vehicles that had provided service on SEPTA's then-five trolley bus routes never returned to service [14] (and all were scrapped in 2006). [15]
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Route 23 is a former streetcar line and current bus route. It is operated by the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority ( SEPTA ) in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , United States . The line runs between the Chestnut Hill and Center City neighborhoods via Germantown Avenue, 11th, and 12th Streets.
From June 19, 2011, the route returned to Wissahickon which remains – in rebuilt form as the Wissahickon Transportation Center – the route's terminus. On March 23, 2023, SEPTA released a new draft plan for Bus Revolution, SEPTA's bus network redesign. As part of the plan, Route 35 would be consolidated into other routes.
On August 1, 2021, SEPTA began bus route 135 from West Chester to Exton, Downingtown, and Coatesville, replacing Krapf's Transit's "A" bus. In addition to the SEPTA operated services, SCCOOT (operated by Krapf's Transit for the Transportation Management Association of Chester County ), which provides service between West Chester and Southern ...