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Hardly anyone rides SEPTA’s Route 23 bus from its origin in deepest South Philly, on Oregon Avenue, to its terminus at the top of Chestnut Hill. After all, it takes about 90 minutes from end-to ...
Many of the 21,000 daily riders of Route 23 bus – at 13.8 miles in each direction the longest and busiest bus route in the SEPTA system – will see changes on Sunday, Nov. 29. From end-to-end ...
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- SEPTA's busiest bus route through Philadelphia is getting split in two on Sunday. The Route 23 bus currently runs from Chestnut Hill to South Philadelphia, but on November 29 ...
In Septa's board room, about a dozen large poster ... Among the ideas being talked about at this point, Nemiroff says, is splitting the Route 23 bus line in half: "It goes from Chestnut Hill ...
Meanwhile, SEPTA maintained that while more people are riding on Route 23 than the average city bus line, the route’s ridership “is operating with full pre-COVID weekday service levels” but not ...
PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The SEPTA bus driver who was shot and killed ... and Abbottsford avenues as Gribbin was operating a Route 23 bus. Police said he was shot six times in the chest and right ...
These are the first two of 10 buses that are projected to enter revenue service, with the remaining eight buses rolling out ...
Before SEPTA started running diesel buses and sold off an inventory of hundreds of electric trolleys in the 1990s, Route 23 was the longest streetcar route in the world. But will the 23 trolley, which ...
When they arrived they found the driver of a Route 23 SEPTA bus suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Police said the driver -- 48-year-old Bernard Gribbin -- had been shot six times in the ...
The changes to bus routes go into effect Feb. 23. The K bus will remain a lettered service until later this year when it merges with Route 26. Historically, SEPTA used letters to identify bus ...
In 1992, SEPTA had promised that the #15, #23 (a 13-mile line on Eleventh and Twelfth Streets in Center City and along Germantown Avenue), and #56 (on Erie Avenue) routes would come back. The route of ...