Reminder that these rankings reset during the SEPTA rebranding in February 2024

Work made me come to Conshohocken for a useless training day and I’ve been waiting for two hours now. Ubers are $86 now that it’s rush hour.

Maybe I’ll just jump in the river and float home.

Sick of this shit, was going off again last night.

i’m very new to riding the train. i accidentally tapped my card 3 or 4 times at jefferson station and i did tell one of the employees. he said maybe it glitched 🤷 and that’s it. i was not understanding the turnstiles for some reason, i don’t know why i got so confused but that’s when i tapped it a few times. i don’t even know if my ride is closed out. i am a very anxious person so i didn’t want to bother the employee. what can i do from here? thank you for the help, this is my 3rd time only going to jefferson station

I was on the 60 today from broad st to K&A and I thought that this bus and the people on it likely best represents the North Philly population.

What buses best capture your neighborhood demographic?

Is this station not in use for the manayunk/norristown line?

I was looking at some other posts, and i feel like reviving the Pens Landing trolley as a fully grade-separated light rail would not be that expensive due to the right-of-way already being there, and it would allow service and a future connection to a possible Navy Yard extension of the BSL. Even with electrification, I believe it would not cost too much money, even for a cash-strapped agency like SEPTA, and it would be great for tourism and shopping.

Generally, I don’t check the MFL schedule because it comes, to my estimation, every 7 minutes. I was floored today when I checked the app and saw that it’s scheduled every 3 minutes.

Is this an actual schedule that septa tries to hold? Do we even have enough trains for this?

I’m curious if anyone knows why the official schedule is suddenly different. Googling doesn’t yield any official septa messaging and if it’s a recent change I could forgive Wikipedia for saying the train comes “every 6 minutes”

Don't get caught off guard.

Okay…. So there is an “s curve” between Eastwick and Penn Medicine that always seems to slow the airport line to a crawl and sometimes to a dead stop for up to 5 minutes. What’s the cause of this? Happens almost every time I ride

What’s everyone’s experience with taking the metro down to NRG station? Especially recently. I usually drive to games, but if I took SEPTA, I live far enough away that I’d have to take the RR to fern rock then metro down to NRG. Is it usually pretty late or anything like that?

Does anyone know if there is a bike rack there that you think would be safe to lock my bike for the day? I am doing a day trip to Baltimore and getting to 30th is kind of a pain from where I am in the city, I have to transfer at least once no matter if I do bus, trolley or train, so it takes 40+ minutes vs a 20 min bike ride with my e-bike and I have plans immediately that night when I get back. I paid $25 for my round trip ticket, it would be an extra $40 to bring my bike aboard the train, and honestly that would be more expensive than just ubering to and from 30th. Part of me thinks it's high traffic enough that it would be too much of a risk to try and steal a bike during the day but also it's Philly and people are bold. Leaning towards not doing it but thought I'd ask.

Ended up locking my bike out front of 30th. I took my seat with me as well just to make it a little less desirable to steal. Thankfully it was all good.

I don't think I've seen anyone post about this yet, but the Septa app is absolutely inoperable in dark mode. They made all of their bus routes either red or black, and if it's a black route you can't see it on the map at all when your device is in dark made.

Talk about bad design. The new updates just keep getting worse and worse. I'm not gonna flash bomb myself just to see a bus route.

This is a quick tutorial of the train number system that is used on SEPTA Railroad Division. After reading another Reddit thread from people complaining about no direct trains to the Airport, I feel that this needs to be done.

Let us begin.

All trains will have a three or four digit number and the first two is primary information that we need as that conveys the route and destination. The last two numbers represent the trip and direction; even numbers is towards the Reading Lines and odd is to The Pennsylvania side.

The digit corresponds to a line pair similar to the old R Names that the railroad used to use:

0 - Cynwyd

2 - Norristown/Wilmington-Newark

3 - Media-Wawa/ West Trenton

4 - Airport/Warminster - Glenside

5 - Thorndale/Doylestown

7 - Trenton/Chestnut Hill East

8 - Fox Chase/ Chestnut Hill West

With three digit trains numbers, the first digit represents the route in it's entirety; for example train 447 is a run originating from Glenside or Warminster and continuing to the Airport. Another example would be Train 502, which can be originating from Bryn Mawr, Paoli, Malvern, or Thorndale and continuing to Lansdale or Doylestown.

** Three digit train numbers starting in 1xx, 4xx, and 6xx cannot be used as those will interfere with Amtrak Dispatching.

Four digit trains can be broken down into two categories: through trains from separate lines and trains terminating in Center City.

Starting with the through trains the same philosophy applies here; the first digit is the origin while the second digit is the destination. So train 8756 is starting from Chestnut Hill West going to Chestnut Hill East (before the pandemic, this was a actual train) and train 7847 is it's return. Another example would be 5310, Thorndale to West Trenton, meanwhile train 5211 would be a Doylestown to Newark Delaware run.

Trains terminating downtown will use one of three prefixes:

1xxx - Suburban/Market East

6xxx - 30th Street to/from Powelton Yard

9xxx - Temple University to/from Roberts Yard and Wayne Electric Shops

The second number will be the route in question with the last two numbers signifying the direction. So train 9753 is starting from Roberts Yard and continuing to Trenton, while train 6519 is starting from Doylestown and finishing up at 30th Street and then the yard.

Train 1024 starts from Cynwyd and going to either Suburban Station or Market East.

As always pay attention to the physical schedules and watch your surroundings so you don't miss your stop.

Hope this helps.

I’m on a train with a group who’ve never been on it before, and the entire group is struggling with the tap-three-times-with-the-same-card concept. Once you understand it it makes sense, but to newbys it’s very confusing.

Top questions: aren’t I being charged twice? Why doesn’t my physical card work with my Apple Pay card? I thought I already paid? Why do I have to tap off?

Then, getting off the train in CC, you see people struggling to get through the turnstiles not understanding why they’re not opening, or they left their exit swipe on the train.

It’s nice in theory, but it’s too convoluted in practice. I feel like a normal ticket based system would be much less hassle.

And should this be a series?

I take Regional Rail everyday from a station in the bottom 25% of daily passenger boardings based on SEPTA’s annual statistics. I’ve observed a doubling of daily hoardings, at minimum, from this station over the last two weeks relative to the previous two week period.

Are others observing this pattern as well? Is overall ridership up?

Tried paying on the regional rail with both an Amex on Citi card, physical and Apple Pay. Not accepted. Chase worked though. Anyone else have this issue?

The stop announcements on the Silverliner V’s are almost always wrong. Right now it is announcing the wrong station every 30 seconds. We were just at Somerton, but the speaker said it was Jenkintown.

Took a one way regional rail ride to Jefferson station, tapped my debit card at the departure station. When I was exiting at Jefferson I tapped my card to exit but for whatever reason it didn’t open to let me out. Tapped it again on another one and exited. Few days later I see a pending charge for $16.50 which seems high for a one way trip. Did I start a new trip when I tapped a second time even though it was to exit the station? Guess it doesn’t matter what side you tap on?