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Station Review #159: Scarborough Road Park and Ride (DART)

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Scarborough Road Park and Ride is a DART bus station located on Delaware Tech Drive and Scarborough Road in Dover, Delaware.  Available buses Three buses go to Scarborough Road Park and Ride, these include: 112 - Del Tech to Dover Transit Center: This is the only local bus that uses this park and ride, providing local service to multiple areas of northern Dover. This runs about half hourly to hourly six days a week. 301 - Wilmington to Dover: This is one of DART's Intercounty routes, which are essentially intercity buses operated by the state of Delaware instead of by a seperate company like Greyhound. This bus goes along DE-1 and US-13 between the two cities of Dover and Wilmington. This runs hourly on weekdays and only a few random Saturday trips.  302 - Middletown to Dover: This is another Intercounty route, this one going between Middletown and Dover. The only reason this gets much of any ridership is because of the fact that it runs locally along t...

Station Review #155: 61st- Pine Loop (SEPTA)

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61st & Pine Loop is a bus loop located at 61st Street and Pine Streets in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood of West Philadelphia. The bus loop mainly has service from short turns of SEPTA's route 42 bus.  Tour 61st & Pine is an average SEPTA loop, being one of the ones that got remodeled in the 2000s-2010s. This loop in particular was remodeled from 2016 to 2018.  Bench and shelter Here, there's a lot of amenities: a bench, a shelter, a map (no schedules), a bike rack, an emergency call button, tactile strips, and a bathroom for the drivers.  The map  Rules and an emergency call button The bathroom Bus Connections There is one bus connection at 61st & Pine Loop: 46 - 63rd-Malvern to 58th-Baltimore: This is a vertical bus that acts a lot like a crosstown. It goes along 60th street, essentially linking Angora to Overbrook. This bus comes about once every 10-15 minutes, and is a blo...

Station Review #152: Rising Sun & Olney Loop (SEPTA)

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Rising Sun & Olney Loop is a SEPTA loop located at Rising Sun and Olney Avenues in the Olney neighborhood of Philadelphia. This loop was not selected to be remodeled in the 2010s.  Bus Service and Connections There are two buses that go here:  26 - Pulaski-Rittenhouse and Olney Transit Center to Frankford Transit Center: The 26 is normally a crosstown bus linking northwest, north, and northeast Philadelphia. Here though, this loop instead is only used for some peak short turns of the bus.  57 - Whitman Plaza to Rising Sun-Olney/Fern Rock Transit Center: This is a vertical bus that goes all the way across the city, mainly along 3rd/4th Streets, and then American Street, and eventually Front Street and Rising Sun Avenue. Most trips of this route end at this loop, with only some continuing to Fern Rock Transit Center Additionally, there is one bus connection immediately nearby:  18 - Fox Chase to Cedarbrook Plaza: This is another crosstown bu...

Station Review #144: Parkside Loop (SEPTA)

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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....

Station Review #133: Oshkosh-Downtown Transit Center (Amtrak/Go Transit)

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Downtown Transit Center is a station along Amtrak's I-41 Thruway bus line in the downtown of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The station is also the main hub for Go Transit, the main transit system of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. This is a different Go Transit than the one of Toronto, Ontario.   Very little about the history of this station is known, past that it was rebuilt in 1994, and that an office was built in 2018 or so.  Services Back of the transit center There are many routes that go through here, these include: Amtrak Amtrak runs the I-41 Thruway bus, a bus that goes between Milwaukee and Green Bay via the Fox Cities ran by Lamers Connect and through-ticketed on Amtrak. Two trips a day are ran in a specially branded bus, while one other trip is in a Lamers Connect bus. That makes six trips per direction total. This bus connects to Amtrak at Milwaukee Intermodal and Milwaukee International Airport. Coach USA/Van Galders Though the Van Galders bus company, Coac...