SEPTA To Operate Shuttle Buses on the Market-Frankford Line This Weekend

March 14, 2007

PHILADELPHIA, PA – SEPTA will operate shuttle buses in place of trains on the western portion of the Market-Frankford Line this weekend (March 14-17).

The shuttle buses will operate from Friday night at 8 p.m. until 5 a.m. on Monday morning between 69th Street Terminal and 40th & Market Streets due to work scheduled for the Market Street Elevated (MSE) Reconstruction project.

For riders traveling into Center City, the shuttle buses will leave 69th Street Terminal (69th & Market Streets) and travel on Chestnut Street from 63rd to 45th Streets, back to Market Street, and then to 40th Street Station where riders will transfer back to the El.

From Center City, regular El service will operate to 40th Street Station, however, riders traveling beyond 40th Street will transfer to shuttle buses at 40th Street. Shuttle buses will leave 40th & Market Streets and continue on 40th Street to Walnut Street, Walnut Street to 63rd Street, and back on Market Street to 69th Street Terminal.

MSE is one of the largest construction projects in the history of SEPTA.The project will reconstruct five stations in West Philadelphia (46th Street, 52rd Street, 56th Street, 60th Street, and 63rd Street) and Millbourne Station in Eastern Delaware County.

The construction project will replace 11,000 feet of the guideway between Millbourne Station and 46th Street with a new single column bent structure that will open up Market Street and significantly improve the flow of traffic.

Information about all SEPTA services is available online or by contacting the SEPTA Customer Service Office at (215) 580-7800. Information is also available from the SEPTA Community Information Center which can reached by phone at (215) 580-6484 or (215) 243-4141.