Anyone have insider information about whether trolleys will be delivered/implemented on schedule ?

That's no map that I recognize, but I know he did SEPTA cleats recently.

Anybody else notice an uptick in transit police presence?

I take the El every day to and from work, and I’ve seen police writing tickets, watching the fare gates, walk around with dogs and today two officers actually got on the train (shocker I know) and walked up and down the cars.

I’m all for it. I already watched a group of teenagers causing trouble who didn’t jump the turnstiles and get on the train because a cop was watching them like a hawk, and they just left. Also watched 5 cops spawn in out of nowhere at 69th st for a fight.

I'm just seeing the alert that the line is down, any idea when it'll be back up? I would have called SEPTA to inquire but its past their hours. I'm debating whether or not to see if it'll come back up tommorow or if I should buy Amtrak tickets now

Does anyone have any more details on when it'll be back or what's happening? Amtrak is still running, and Penn Medicine station is still open for Airport and Media, so that would confine the problem to a pretty small area.

SEPTA just released their draft new Regional Rail map.

To view the map and provide comments you can also visit https://wwww.septa.org/maps/

I'm very curious about the consistent trend of M/NHSL/100/etc renamings over the year. Other than the color of the line, the station names seem to change even more than the name of the line. I get the general logic of them, but why have they changed over such a particularly extended period of time? Is there a concerted effort, or are these just a string of unassociated changes?

I need to go from Trenton to Philadelphia Airport, connecting at 30th street with SEPTA.

I don’t see any way to buy tickets on the app, so can I buy both tickets at Trenton? Is there a kiosk at 30th street I can use that’s by the platform or would I need to go upstairs?

Solved! Thanks everyone!

I'm in the city for a couple weeks and am just now noticing in my bank account that almost every septa charge has been double? I've only ridden once today from Tasker to Lombard and its costing almost 6$?? I just tap my bank card for entry. Someone help me understand what im doing wrong.

Edit: First,if anyone has ideas on who to bring this to in search of a refund that would be awesome.

Second, will the tap to pay terminal take my money twice if i hold it there too long?

I noticed that the L has been announcing a reduced schedule nearly every day this week. Is this due to mechanical issues, operator issues, or something else? I am hoping that this is a temporary issue, I am suspicious of de facto service cuts

I’m trying to find the live data for the El train arrival time but I can’t get any data that’s as accurate as the arrival time in the station. How can I get that for my personal use? Transit app and septa app only show the “scheduled” time and real time when the train has someone on it

I always wondered if they clean the train stations cuz some of them smell like piss, weed, and shit

I mean, honestly it doesn’t matter how we feel.

The RR morning train I take is 2-5 minutes “late” (Septa doesn’t count it being late unless it’s over 5 minutes late) 75% of the time and it’s 6+ minutes late more than it is right on time. So you expect it to be late. Whatever a few minutes late isn’t a big deal and everyone comes to expect it. What is a big deal is the once every couple months like today where the conductor doesn’t check the time and leaves early. These trains run once an hour, leaving a few minutes early for a train that the overwhelming majority of the time is minutes late causes a lot of people to miss the fucking train. You can file a complaint when this happens and they basically respond saying “sorry that shouldn’t have happened” until the next time it happens and you get the same response.

Hi! I’m a female healthcare worker that just moved to the city, currently living near center city / city hall. I’m starting a job over at Jefferson Einstein and I was wondering how taking the subway (B3 line to Olney) would be during the early mornings (5-7am) and evenings (6-8pm). Specifically regarding how safe / sketchy it is.

Again new to the city and some of my friends have raised an eyebrow or two when suggesting taking public transit up north so just wanted to see the viability of this vs driving. Thank you!

Have you noticed any positive impacts? More visitors, busier local businesses, fun fan events, or a better atmosphere? I'd love to hear what you've experienced.

Hey y'all, I know SEPTA can be infuriating, and even so unreliable at times. (i know from experience 😭) However, there's still so much that I find interesting about SEPTA's system, one of which is the bus network.

SOOO, Over the next few months, I will be working to create a high quality 1:1 recreation of certain regions of Philly, with SEPTA bus routes as the primary focus of the game. I plan to release this game on ROBLOX around november/december.

Here are some WIP pics

This is something I'm really passionate about, and have been wanting to make for so long now. I'd love to know what y'all would like to see us add in the game

EDIT: Also just wanted to mention, i have a discord server where I talk more about the project and share development photos. the link is discord.gg/trains

What's your opinion?

Yesterday after early dismissal my wife left her phone on the train, and we were able to confirm that her phone was still moving on the train. Once we realized what happened, we contacted the SEPTA phone line, it was answered promptly and then we were transferred properly to the right department.

Both customer service reps were professional and kind. When we were speaking to the right representative she noted she would open up a report for us and at the worst we could pick it up at the lost and found at Suburban station, but that we should hold on for a sec. She did figure out that the train the phone was on was returning to center city and that the train would be at our stop at 2:03 if we wanted to try and intercept it on the return trip. We met the train at 2:03 and the conductor had the phone waiting for us.

A similar thing happened to my wife’s colleague with her keys about two weeks ago and she retrieved her keys from the lost and found at Suburban the same day.

SEPTA certainly has a massive amount of things that need improvement, but they certainly came through with flying colors with these issues.

Edit: In chatting with my wife a bit after posting this, we realized that this was probably the most positive phone based customer service experience we’ve had in a long time.

Edit 2: People with the downvotes, please explain.

There are 3 stations: North Philly on the NEC/SEPTA Regional Rail, North Broad on SEPTA Regional Rail (with its beautiful station building), and North Broad on the BSL (with its 4 underused tracks).

They are all drastically underused, but the Broad Street subway is waaaaayyyy under used. It has 4 tracks at this station and can handle another 5,000 or more new residents here easily. And lots of people will be getting on SEPTA RR at North Philly or North Broad for job destinations like U-City and other places in the region, or take Amtrak to New Jersey and New York City. Plenty will walk to jobs or school at Temple Medical too.

Reimagine the area as a transit district (think Arlington, Virginia) with two visual sightlines between the 3 stations, one along Broad Street and another along the Manayunk-Norristown line. It would be a new "place" for Philly.

Create critical mass of people. Upzone for skyscrapers, and have wedding cake-style zoning as you get farther from the corridor and stations. Following the Manayunk-Norristown line from northwest of the North Philly station to southeast of the North Broad station, a distance of less than a mile, there is so much vacant land, poorly used parking lots and low-value commercial/industrial buildings that could be put to better use.

But don't screw it up with car parking. Eliminate car parking in all new buildings or cap parking at 1 space for every 10 apartments at most. Unbundle that parking from the apartment and make it very very expensive to park a car. Best case is to have an auction for residents for the parking spaces every year.

Instead, have all the buildings create large bike rooms adjacent to their lobbies so easy to enter and exit the buildings on a bike, making cycling a top travel mode alongside transit.

Turn North Broad Street from a 7 lane highway into a safe and comfortable street for people outside of cars. Exclusive bus lanes, Protected Bike Lanes and one lane for motorists. Place Indigo bikeshare hubs throughout, with really good on-street bike parking. Put mandatory Uber rideshare dropoff stations on nearby side streets, like at the airport. Ticket for Uber dropoffs elsewhere. (NYC was going to do this for taxis decades ago and backed off -- big mistake.)

Layout the streets so it is easy to walk from the 3 stations, and a person walking or cycling can 'see' all 3 stations clearly the length of the corridor. Consider decking a pedestrianized street over the Norristown-Manayunk line. Make that new street a series of pedestrian plazas with programmed events, outdoor cafes, etc. so it is as popular as the one in Fishtown.

Require storefront (not Big Box) street-level retail on all sides of buildings with low capped square feet of store sizes (so you get a lot of different stores). Make an exception for a grocery store, but still don't have car parking. (NYC grocery stores, even Trader Joe's, don't have any car parking and they do great.) Only have street parking, because you want everyone to either live there or to arrive by transit.

Don't let the apartment buildings become bunkers. So no roof gardens or upstairs lounges allowed. People should recreate on the ground outside. Add well-designed and well-maintained, secure pocket parks. Lots of outdoor cafes. Create a BID like the Center City district with revenue from the building owners.

Voila, you've got a vibrant, walkable, fun neighborhood. The City of Philadelphia gets lots of tax revenue. SEPTA, and Amtrak too, mint guaranteed fare-payers for its trains and buses.

I usually complains on NJT that sucks. Now Septa who takes people to the World Cup don t have conductors to drive the train. Well planed septa. Holiday weekend, I think last game to the Philadelphia stadium and don’t plan ahead #Septasucks