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The original Route 68 went on the Point Breeze-11th and 12th Streets Line until 1914. A second Route 68 went from 3rd & Highland, Chester to Brookhaven on June 30, 1960. Routes 68 and 69 merged into new SEPTA Route 70 on June 18, 1973. A later Route 68 went from Darby via Gladwyne to Ardmore (discontinued February 1982).
Darby to Chester service was formerly Southern Penn Traction Company's trolley service to Chester and Wilmington; Buses replace trolleys December 13, 1938. Red Arrow took control of bus service on June 30, 1960. SEPTA designated the line Route 74 when it took over on January 29, 1970. Redesignated Route 114 on June 30, 1986.
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.
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]
Route 104 is a bus route operated by SEPTA between Upper Darby's 69th Street Transportation Center and the North Campus of West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Route 104 initially was a streetcar line which operated parallel to the West Chester Pike ( PA Route 3 ) and was operated by the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation ...
The provision of public transit service was becoming increasingly unprofitable in the 1950s and 1960s, [2] and cities across the country were municipalizing their transit systems or creating regional public transit authorities. SEPTA acquired the Philadelphia Transportation Company in 1968, taking possession of PTC at noon on September 30, 1968 ...
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The route starts at a loop in the vicinity of 35th Street and Allegheny Avenue. It is a route shared with the SEPTA Route 1 and Route R bus lines until it reaches the five-way intersection between US 13 (West Hunting Park Avenue) and Henry Avenue, where the two bus lines move away from Allegheny Avenue and go northeast on US 13.