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Bells Corner Loop is a bus loop in the Bells Corner neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia. The bus loop exists as a turnback point for the 59 bus.  History The 59 was inagurated as a trolley route in November of 1922, ran by the PRT from Arrott Transportation Center to Bustleton and Lott Streets. Bells Corner was built as a turnback loop for short turns.  Old post card photo of the first trolley in Bustleton, taken at the present day location of the Kelly's Seafood restaurant.  The old 59 trolley ran the same route as the present day 59, but instead would continue up Bustleton avenue (including what is now present day "Old" Bustleton Avenue) and then up Welsh road, before going back onto Bustleton avenue and ending in the middle of the road at Lott street. The old 59 had two turnback looks  This arrangement worked pretty well until the late 40s, when the PTC (successor to the PRT) wanted to run PCCs. PCCs are not double sided, and Bust

Southampton is a bus stop on the SEPTA Boulevard Direct bus line, located at Roosevelt Boulevard and Southampton Road in the Byberry neighborhood of Philadelphia.  Tour This is basically a standard bus stop with "Southampton" plastered on it. There is very little that distinguishes this from every other bus stop ever.  Rubbage Bins Bench Sign advertising the Boulevard Direct On the other side of Roosevelt Boulevard, it's the exact same story, except with more areas to walk to and from.  Bus Connections At Southampton Road, you can connect to these routes: 1: 54th-City to Parx Casino 14: Frankford Transportation Center to Neshaminy or Oxford Valley Malls 84: Frankford Transportation Center to Philadelphia Mills or Bustleton-County Line via State Road and Southampton Road Points of Interest in Byberry There are a couple interesting things in Byberry to visit, these include: The remains of B

Schedule changes on the door Greyhound has a bus station in Wilmington. It's not the largest bus station that they've had, but at least it still exists. Let's look around inside! Tour Side of the building. The outside of the building is made to fit in with the rest of the Furness Transit district, anchored by  Wilmington (Amtrak/SEPTA) . Thus, it attempts to look like it's made of red bricks, failing miserably at doing this upon closer inspection. To enter, you must go to the other side of the building.  Going inside the building, you enter to see a large number of chairs, and not much else. There is a vending machine or two, bathrooms, and an American flag, and that's all you get. There is so much empty space here. Greyhound didn't even add a TV, or anything similar for waiting customers.  Much of the area you wait in Ad for the Greyest Hound on the window of the Greyhound waiting station Rest of the s

150 Bus at PARX Casino The 150 is a bus that goes from Plymouth Meeting Mall to PARX Casino. This bus is basically a casino bus, going directly from a mall to a casino via I-276, aka the PA Turnpike.  Information The 150 runs Mondays through Saturdays, 12 trips per day on weekdays, and 10 on Saturdays, making for a horrendous 70 trips per week. Compare this with a much more frequent bus, like say the 52 and you see why 70 is such a sad number (as of 2020, the 52 runs 742 trips per week, almost 11 times the amount of trips the 150 runs.) Considering that the 150 runs 70 buses per week, you'd expect it to have similarly horrendous frequency, and you would be correct.  Below is a picture of a timetable I took for the 150 (the bus was stocked with them for once): Extremely frequent, huh?  This bus essentially runs as pullout/pullback service, hence the extreme infrequency.  PARX Casino Bus Terminal I started my journey on the 150 at PARX Casino, a major bus tran

Richmond - Westmoreland Loop is a bus station in the Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia, PA. Richmond - Westmoreland Loop serves the bus portion of trolley route 15, as well as bus routes 60 and 73. The loop's existence is integral to the SEPTA network in the River Wards.  Station Tour:  The main section of the Richmond - Westmoreland loop has a structure that looks like this: The main structure of the loop Inside that, there are benches for people to sit on and maps, and those are on the outside as well. Maps at the station can be seen below: Route 15 map Route 60 map Route 73 map, note that it shows Northwood on the map when Northwood is in an area to the northwest not shown on the map at all  Unfortunately, the station also has quite a bit of hostile architecture, the "leaners" all too familiar to those who use SEPTA nowadays. These leaners are completely inaccessible and I honestly despise them, and c