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Parkside Loop is a SEPTA bus loop located at 50th Street in the Parkside neighborhood of West Philadelphia.  Services and Transit Connections There are multiple buses that use this loop:  40 - 2nd-Lombard to Conshohocken-Monument : A few trips a day go to the Parkside Loop, often to short turn. Otherwise, you can catch this bus nearby at Parkside Avenue. Both variants of this bus run about once every 15 minutes 43 - Richmond-Cumberland to Parkside Loop: This bus is a crosstown route that uses Spring Garden Street and Haverford Avenue, among others. The SEPTA Bus Revolution plan will have this bus continue to 69th Street Transit Center in place of the 30, thus removing this connection.  52 - 49th-Woodland to 54th-City/Parkside Loop: This bus acts as a vertical, and goes via 52nd Street north from Kingsessing. Some trips of the 52 go to Parkside Loop, and some continue to City Avenue. A few trips a day also end at the nearby ParkWest Town Center....

Highland is a station on SEPTA's Chestnut Hill West line. The station is located at 8412 Seminole Avenue in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia. If one doesn't count the Chestnut Hill West Line platforms at North Philadelphia station as a separate station, Highland station has the lowest ridership of any station on the Chestnut Hill West Line, as well as the 9th least used overall.  History The Philadelphia, Germantown, and Chestnut Hill branch of the Connecting Railway (a subsidiary of the Pennsylvania Railroad made to connect) was established in 1884, and a line from North Philadelphia to Chestnut Hill to connect with the PRR main line was finished in 1887, and with it Highland station opened. A large depot was built for the station, but it didn't seem to be used a lot.  In 1916, this section of the PRR Chestnut Hill branch was grade separated, and with that the old depot was demolished. In its place went a small wooden shelter. At some ...

Tulpehocken is a station on SEPTA's Chestnut Hill West line. The station is located at Tulpehocken Avenue near Wayne Avenue in the Blue Bell Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia.  Tour Tulpehocken feels like a lot of the other stations on the Chestnut Hill West Branch. As is the norm here, nothing is accessible.  The depot has since fallen into disrepair and disuse.  The outbound platform That's most of the outbound platform right there. Outbound shelter   Some of the Chestnut Hill West stations have a shelter that only has a map and schedules inside.  No bench though, everyone can just sit in the rain instead! Rest of the outbound platform Stairs to the tunnel between the platforms The tunnel Dingy, as per usual with these tunnels The old depot Parking lot The entire station from one of the parking lots This place seems a lot more sad...

23rd and Venango loop is a SEPTA bus loop located on 23rd Street, Venango Street, and Hunting Park Avenue in the Nicetown neighborhood of North Philadelphia.    Buses That Stop Here Two buses stop at 23rd-Venango Loop, they are:   33 - Penns Landing to 23rd-Venango: This is an L shaped route that links neighborhoods like Nicetown, Allegheny, Cecil B. Moore, Sharswood, Francisville, and Fairmount to Center City via 19th/20th Streets and 22nd Street.  This bus links 23rd-Venango Loop to Allegheny station on the Manayunk-Norristown Line 56 - 23rd-Venango or Bakers Centre to Torresdale-Cottman: This bus is a crosstown bus that goes along Erie and Torresdale Avenues. This bus links directly to the B1/B2/B3 at Erie Station and the L at Erie/Torresdale station Tour Some route 56 buses at the station   23rd-Venango is a small bus loop, though it doesn't really need to be all that large.  One of the shelters Each shelter has...

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 ...