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Cheltenham-Ogontz Loop is a Bus station on Cheltenham Avenue and Ogontz Avenue (State route 309) in Cheltenham, Pennsylvania, operated by SEPTA.  Bus Services There are multiple bus routes that stop at Cheltenham-Ogontz Loop, these include:    6 - Cheltenham-Ogontz to Olney Transit Center: This bus goes down Ogontz Avenue towards Olney Transit Center, and has some of the highest ridership in the entire SEPTA network 16 - City Hall to Cheltenham-Ogontz: In tandem with the 4 bus further south, the 16 is one of the buses that runs along Broad Street, paralleling the Broad Street Line, and connecting to almost every station north of City Hall, including Olney Transit Center. Only Fern Rock Transit Center is excluded here. This route was originally part of Route C. 22 -  Warminster/Willow Grove to Olney Transit Center: This bus goes along Easton Road to Willow Grove Mall. About one trip an hour goes to Warminster. Warminster trips before 9:30 pm or...

Burns Commons is the northern terminus station for the M-Line of The Hop. The station is located on Ogden Avenue between Farwell and Prospect Avenues in the Yankee Hill neighborhood on the southern edge of the East Side of Milwaukee. Tour There's a bench and a schedule, and little to nothing else.  Notice about the Festival Line service The trolley itself There's not much else here.  Bus Connections There's only one connection to the MCTS bus system here, and that's the 30 bus. This bus runs from the Upper East Side, along Wisconsin Avenue and then along Sherman Boulevard to the North Bay Shopping Mall. The M-Line streetcar goes to many of the same places that the 30 bus does in Downtown, it just does so at a snail's pace in comparison.  Points of Interest Near Burns Commons Immediately next to the station itself is the Burns Commons park. The Jewish Museum of Milwaukee is also nearby, as well a...

Wynnefield Avenue is a station on SEPTA's Cynwyd Line, located at the intersection of Bryn Mawr and Wynnefield avenues in Philadelphia's Wynnefield neighborhood. Wynnefield Avenue station is also oftentimes just known as Wynnefield.  Wynnefield Avenue is along SEPTA's Cynwyd Line, which boasts the lowest ridership among every SEPTA line.  History Wynnefield station in 2012 Very little about the history of Wynnefield Avenue is known. All that is known is that the station was rebuilt in 2019.  Tour There's not much at Wynnefield station, but that's more than enough. Wynnefield Avenue is not a station that needs a lot of frills. Stairs Small parking lot Map and schedule The platform Wynnefield Avenue is accessible, like all of the Cynwyd line stations.  The shelter The ramp Bus Connections There is one bus connection at Wynnefield Avenue: the 40. The ...

Bala is a station on SEPTA's Cynwyd Line. The station is located on City Avenue in Bala-Cynwyd, PA (itself a part of Lower Merion Township). The Cynwyd Line is the least used regional rail line in the SEPTA system, and the one with the least amount of service with only six trains per day at peak times mainly, weekdays only. History The station, 1966   Bala station was originally built along the Pennsylvania Railroad Schuylkill Branch in 1884. It had a depot on one end and a shelter on the other. At some point around the 1950s, the depot was torn down. The station was rebuilt sometime around the early 1980s, before the Cynwyd line service was truncated to Cynwyd "temporarily". Sometime between 2017 and 2019, Bala and Wynnefield Avenue stations were rebuilt. The old shelter for Bala still remains, although it is fenced off and unable to be used now. Tour Parking Bala station is essentially a City Avenue park and ride station. Signage ment...

Charles W. Dickinson Transportation Center, also known as Pottstown Transportation Center, is a bus center located in downtown Pottstown, PA. The station is served by Amtrak and PART buses. History Pottstown was originally a train station on the Reading Railroad's main line, with service between Pottsville and Philadelphia. The original station was built by the Pennsylvania and Reading in 1867, and was only torn down and rebuilt in 1928.   Pottstown station saw service up until 1981, when SEPTA cut back service to Norristown due to a lack of funding for more diesel trains to run with their electric trains in more far flung areas. In 1984, the station building was added to the national register of historic places.  At some point, the bus berths near the former train station started getting called Pottstown Transportation Center. Years later, the station was renamed to Charles W. Dickinson Transportation Center, after Charles W. Dickinson, the founde...