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$30.00 – $80.00The Girard Ave “G” Line (formerly Route 15) is the only SEPTA Metro service which does not run through a subway or on an elevated line. First running with horse-drawn streetcars in 1859, the line has acted as an important crosstown line, connecting northern Philadelphia to Fairmount Park. Due to budget cuts, the line was converted into a bus in 1992, but ridership growth and popular demand brought the streetcar back in 2005. Unlike the other streetcar lines, which use more modern light rail vehicles, the G line uses refurbished, historic PCC cars.
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$30.00 – $80.00Routes D1 (formerly 101) and D2 (formerly 102), along with the Norristown HSL, are all that remains of the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company lines, commonly known as the Red Arrow Lines. Route 101, which dates from 1913, runs from downtown Media to 69th St Transportation center along a dedicated ROW but within Media along the street. Route 102, which dates from 1906, runs from Sharon Hill to 69th St.
Routes 101 and 102 use the larger 5′ 2.5″ rail gauge which is also used by the Market-Frankford Line along with other trolleys in Philadelphia. The routes run a mixture of local and express services. Until a few years ago SEPTA gave these routes a brown color on the system map but recently rebranded them as the D1 and D2 lines, while also changing the route color to pink.
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$30.00 – $80.00The Norristown High Speed Line, now the “M” Line (formerly Route 100) began as a Philadelphia & Western Railroad interurban trolley in 1907 between the new 69th St Market-Frankford terminal and Strafford, PA. In 1912 a branch was built to Villanova and then extended to Norristown. The new branch proved more popular than the Strafford branch which was eventually abandoned in 1956. A year before, in 1955, the line was taken over by the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Co (more commonly known as the Red Arrow Lines) along with Routes 101, 102, 103, and 104. Route 103 to Ardmore was abandoned in 1966 and Route 104 to West Chester was abandoned in 1958.
The Norristown High Speed Line runs four services, a local, the Norristown Express, Hughes Park Express (short turning at Hughes Park, and the Norristown Limited which only stops at 6 stations between Norristown and 69th St. Unlike the Market-Frankford Line and the Media-Sharon Hill Lines (which use a larger 5′ 2.5″ rail gauge) the Norristown Line uses a standard 4′ 8.5″ gauge meaning that service could not be extended into Philadelphia via the existing subway.
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$30.00 – $80.00When the Market-Frankford subway opened in 1907 it provided two tracks for surface line streetcars to use with a loop at City Hall. Similar to Boston’s Green Line and San Francisco’s Market St Line, the subway uses pre-WW2 streetcar lines as branches. After World War 2, like in most American cities, trolleys were converted to bus lines, but in Philly there were many lines which never made the conversion. The streets of Philadelphia are lined with disused streetcar tracks but in West Philly there is still an active network; routes T1 through T5 (formerly routes 10, 11, 13, 34, and 36) use the subway and route G (formerly route 15) crosses the city along Girard Ave but does no use the subway. The original subway portal was located at 23rd St but when the Market-Frankford Subway tunnel was extended west so too was the trolley tunnel with a new portal at 36th and Ludlow Streets and another at 40th St between Baltimore and Woodland Aves.
The trolley lines have been threatened with replacement via bus or subway extension for decades, but due to a lack of funds and popularity the streetcars remain and SEPTA is studying bringing back older lines as well. New cars are being purchased with low floors to help riders in wheelchairs, and studies are being made looking at consolidating surface stops to speed up trips.
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