SEPTA Schedules Set for Christmas Eve, Christmas Day

December 14, 2007

PHILADELPHIA, PA – SEPTA City and Suburban Transit Division bus, trolley and subway-elevated routes as well as Regional Rail lines will operate on weekday schedules on Christmas Eve (Monday, December 24). On Christmas Day (Tuesday, December 25), all SEPTA services will operate on Sunday or special schedules.

CHRISTMAS EVE (Monday, December 24)

On Christmas Eve, most SEPTA services will operate on regular weekday schedules. Suburban Transit rail Routes 100 (the Norristown High Speed Line) and Routes 101 and 102 (the Media and Sharon Hill trolley lines) will operate with increased midday service but provide reduced afternoon peak hour service.

CHRISTMAS DAY (Tuesday, December 25)

On Christmas Day, SEPTA bus, trolley and subway-elevated routes will operate on a Sunday schedule with the exceptions of Suburban Transit Division bus Routes 93, 94, 96, 97, 98, 99, 104, 105, 108, 109, 110, 114, 117, 119, 124, 125, 130 and 305 which will operate on special Christmas Day schedules as indicated in the current public timetables and on the SEPTA web site at www.septa.org. Suburban Transit Division bus Routes 120, 123, 132 and 204 will not operate.

SEPTA Regional Rail service will operate on a special holiday (reduced Sunday) schedule with rail lines providing service about every two hours with the exceptions of the R1 Airport line which will operate every half hour, R7 Trenton which will operate hourly and R3 Media-Elwyn and R8 Fox Chase which will run about every three hours.

The revised SEPTA Christmas Day regional rail schedules are now available on the SEPTA web site at www.septa.org.

Riders can also call the SEPTA Customer Service Department at (215) 580-7800 for schedule information. The Customer Service Department will maintain regular hours with "live" information agents on duty from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. on weekdays and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekends, throughout the holiday season with the exception of Christmas Day when the office will be open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The STAR pre-recorded information system provides callers with schedule information 24 hours a day.