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Gregg Street Loop is a bus loop operated by SEPTA. The loop is located very close to the intersection of Frankford Avenue and Linden Avenue in the Torresdale neighborhood of Philadelphia. Services One of the two bus stop signs at the bus loop There are three bus services that stop at Gregg Street Loop, these include:  Route 66: Frankford Transportation Center to City Line Loop via Frankford Avenue. Some trips end at Gregg Street Loop instead of going all the way to City Line Loop .  Route 70: Fern Rock Transportation Center to Torresdale-Cottman or Gregg Street Loops via Cottman Avenue. Some trips continue past Torresdale-Cottman Loop to Gregg Street Loop via Torresdale Avenue and State Road, linking the 70 to Upper Holmesburg.  Route 88: Gregg Street Loop to Frankford Transportation Center via Rowland Avenue. This bus was extended from Pennypack Woods to Gregg St. Loop sometime around 2018 or so.  Bus Connections Additionally, Routes 19 (Fr...

Frankford and Knights Loop, also known as City Line Loop, is a bus loop located at Frankford Avenue and Knights Road in Philadelphia's Crestmont Farms neighborhood.  Routes Serving the Loop 129 bus laying over Frankford and Knights Loop has four bus connections in total. Route 66 : This bus goes between Frankford Transportation Center and Frankford and Knights Loop via Frankford Avenue. This bus is a trolleybus route, one of the three in the city. It was formerly a trolley, and this is the reason for the existence of this loop.  Route 129: This bus goes between Frankford and Knights Loop and Oxford Valley Mall in what is possibly the longest way possible. Along the way it serves Bensalem, Newportville, Bristol, Levittown, and Penndel, before going to Oxford Valley and ending at Oxford Valley Mall.  Route 130: This bus goes from Frankford and Knights Loop to Newtown, going to PARX Casino and Neshaminy Mall along the way, as well as linking Bensalem ...

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...