SEPTA meets students' transportation demands

A system of buses, subways and trains can be easily accessed from the Penn campus and take you throughout southeast Pennsylvania. The campus is also served by several bus routes to Center City, South Street, Chinatown and other locations throughout the city. Buses are accessible at virtually every corner along the route. · The number 40 bus runs through campus down Spruce Street, which becomes South Street near Franklin Field and the University Museum. It continues down South Street until 2nd Street, stopping in front of New Market in Society Hill. · The number 21 bus runs along Chestnut Street through campus and continues downtown into the historic district. The route returns to West Philadelphia via Walnut Street. In addition to serving the historic district, it also takes its riders to Liberty Place, several shops along Chestnut Street and the Ritz movie theaters. ·The number 42 bus runs along Spruce Street west of 38th Street and then runs south for a few blocks before returning to campus along 33rd Street near the Penn Tower Hotel. The route then continues along Chestnut Street into Center City. While buses can be accessed easily, they are often crowded and generally slow, since they stop at almost every block. The underground subway and subway-surface rail lines also offer an equally inexpensive, but much quicker way to get around the city. ·The Market-Frankford El (the "blue" line) is the fastest route to Center City. Students can pick up the line on Market Street at either 34th or 40th streets. It stops at 30th Street Station, City Hall, Reading Terminal Market, The Gallery, Independence Mall and Penn's Landing. Heading west, the line stops every few blocks until 69t Street --an easy, though somewhat unsafe, to get the Tower Theatre and surrounding shop in Upper Darby. ·The subway-surface rails (or "green" line) stop at several locations on and near campus. Stops include the corner of 37th and Spruce streets, in front of the Quadrangle, the corner of 36th and Sansom Streets near King's Court/English House and the corner of 40th Street and Baltimore Avenue. The subway-surface rails wind around most of Philadelphia including Center City. ·The Broad Street line (or "orange" line) runs north-south along Broad Street. The line can be boarded from the green or blue lines at the City Hall free interchange. Heading south, riders can reach the Philadelphia sports complex home to Veterans Stadium, the CoreStates Spectrum and Spectrum II. Temple University can be reached by taking the orange line north to the Columbia stop. SEPTA also offers commuter rail lines which leave the 30th Street Station, Market East and Penn Center stations and head into the Philadelphia suburbs, including Haverford and Bryn Mawr colleges. Also, the new University City Rail Station, located next to Franklin Field at South Street and Convention Venue, opened last semester and serves the airport, among other places. This station does not appear on current SEPTA maps, which have not been updated since 1990. Students can also reach Atlantic City by taking SEPTA into New Jersey and transferring to New Jersey Transit. Finally, SEPTA can be taken to Trenton, N.J., where New Jersey Transit trains travel to New York City's Penn Station. A New Jersey Transit bus to Manhattan also leaves from the Greyhound bus terminal at 10th and Filbert streets, behind The Gallery mall.