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30-625: Four bus routes also serve the station. Fern Rock Transportation Center serves as the western terminus for the 28 and 70 bus routes. Fern Rock is also the northernmost terminus for the 4 and 57 bus routes. Fern Rock Transportation Center serves the Warminster Line , West Trenton Line , and the Lansdale/Doylestown Line . In FY 2015, there was a weekday average of 825 boardings and 792 alightings. The current SEPTA Regional Rail station at Fern Rock Transportation Center, located along

60-563: A circular route in University City . There are two lines—Green and Gold—both of which travel along the same streets, but in opposite directions. Technically, there are no terminal stops, but the schedules lists 30th Street Station as its end point although drivers take their layovers on JFK Boulevard just west of 30th Street. The Boulevard Direct , which is part of the SEPTA DIRECT BUS brand, operates along Roosevelt Boulevard between

90-564: A free interchange between the Boulevard Direct and the Route 14 bus for same direction travel. The Boulevard Direct service was launched on October 22, 2017. The Boulevard Direct is operated by the Comly District. SEPTA Owl Link was an on-demand microtransit service that provided late night connections from City Transit routes to employers in lower Bucks County . The service connected with

120-534: A letter to National City Lines on 8 December 1955, the company's vice president, Kenneth E. Totten, traveled to Montgomery the following week. The boycott lasted for just over a year, and cost the company $ 750,000 (equivalent to $ 8.4 million in 2023). The boycott ended only after the United States Supreme Court affirmed Browder v. Gayle , a ruling that black bus passengers had a right to sit in any publicly available seat. National City Lines acquired

150-520: Is only two northbound trips. Former trolleybus route SEPTA operates bus routes numbered in the 400 Series which are designed to serve students attending schools in the city of Philadelphia. Per federal regulations, SEPTA is not allowed to offer charter bus service for the School District of Philadelphia , so all riders are allowed to utilize the 400 Series routes. or Henry and Midvale The LUCY routes ( L oop through U niversity C it Y ) follow

180-594: The Frankford Transportation Center and the Neshaminy Mall . Boulevard Direct offers limited-stop service along Roosevelt Boulevard, with service operating every 10–15 minutes during most times on weekdays and every 15 minutes on weekends. The service offers improved travel times compared to traditional bus service along Route 14, with more frequent service and several bus stops located on the far side of intersections to improve performance. SEPTA offers

210-720: The Great American streetcar scandal (or 'General Motors streetcar conspiracy', 'National City Lines conspiracy'). In 1948, the United States Supreme Court (in United States v. National City Lines Inc. ) permitted a change in venue to the Federal District Court in Northern Illinois . National City Lines merged with Pacific City Lines the same year. In 1949, General Motors, Standard Oil of California, Firestone and others were convicted of conspiring to monopolize

240-603: The Montgomery Advertiser on December 3, 1955, Montgomery's Transportation Superintendent J. H. Bagley wrote: The Montgomery City Lines is sorry if anyone expects us to be exempt from any state or city law ... [w]e are sorry that the colored people blame us for any state or city ordinance which we didn't have passed." After Martin Luther King Jr. and the Montgomery Improvement Association wired

270-611: The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) operate almost all of Philadelphia 's public transit, including all six trolley , three trackless trolley , and 70 bus lines within city limits. Some of the bordering municipalities are served by the City Transit division, despite not being part of the city. For example, Cheltenham Township has 13 city division routes and no Suburban Division ones. The City Transit division also operates

300-509: The 400 Series routes which are designed to serve students attending schools in the city of Philadelphia. The City Transit Division is broken down into seven districts (Allegheny, Callowhill, Comly, Elmwood, Frankford, Midvale, and Southern) and Contract Operations. Transit in Philadelphia began with multiple independent horse car, cable, and traction companies, including the privately established entities: Philadelphia Passenger Railway Company,

330-554: The Fitzgerald brothers' bus operations, founded in Minnesota , United States, in 1920 as a modest local transport company operating two buses. Part of the Fitzgerald's operations were reorganized into a holding company in 1936, and later expanded about 1938 with equity funding from General Motors , Firestone Tire , Standard Oil of California and Phillips Petroleum for the express purpose of acquiring local transit systems throughout

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360-561: The Route 14 bus at Horizon Boulevard, the Route 56 bus at the Torresdale & Cottman Loop, and the Route 66 trackless trolley at the City Line Loop. Trips on SEPTA Owl Link were free with a SEPTA Key card. The SEPTA Owl Link service started on May 10, 2021, as a pilot program. The service ended on February 12, 2022. National City Lines National City Lines, Inc. ( NCL ) was a public transportation company. The company grew out of

390-514: The SEPTA Main Line, was built in March 1992 to accommodate Regional Rail commuters displaced during SEPTA's 1992/1993 Railworks reconstruction project. The new station replaced former Reading Railroad stations Fern Rock and Tabor, respectively located north and south of the new station. It has high-level platforms and is handicap-accessible, being directly connected to the subway station by a ramp from

420-720: The Thirteenth & Fifteenth Street Passenger Railway Company, West Philadelphia Passenger Railway Company, etc. In 1895 these companies began amalgamating into three large operations: the Electric Traction Company, the People's Traction Company, and the Philadelphia Transportation Company (PTC). The following year they consolidated as the Union Traction Company (UTC). In 1902 UTC went bankrupt; it

450-516: The United States in what became known as the General Motors streetcar conspiracy . The company formed a subsidiary, Pacific City Lines in 1937 to purchase streetcar systems in the western United States . National City Lines, and Pacific City Lines were indicted in 1947 on charges of conspiring to acquire control of a number of transit companies, and of forming a transportation monopoly for

480-615: The city services as its "City Transit Division". Many of today's bus and trackless trolley routes were once streetcar lines. Many of the numbered routes were once lettered or named bus routes. The first bus route was Route A, established in 1923 between Center City Philadelphia and Frankford Terminal via Strawberry Mansion, Hunting Park Avenue, and Roosevelt Boulevard. Route R replaced Route A along Hunting Park and Roosevelt. Route A then served Roxborough and Andorra within Philadelphia and Barren Hill in Montgomery County . Route A

510-682: The company obtained equity funding from companies seeking to increase sales of commercial buses and supplies, including General Motors , Firestone Tire , Standard Oil of California and Phillips Petroleum . In 1936, they bought 13 transit companies in Illinois , Oklahoma and Michigan , then in 1937, they replaced streetcars in Butte, Montana and made purchases in Mississippi and Texas . Sometimes these systems were already run down, but not always. Major investment had recently been made with improvements to

540-533: The larger metropolitan areas in various parts of the country in 1943 merged with NCL in 1946. By 1947 the company owned or controlled 46 systems in 45 cities in 16 states. In 1947 National City Lines, with others was indicted in the Federal District Court of Southern California on two counts: ' conspiring to acquire control of a number of transit companies, forming a transportation monopolize ' and 'Conspiring to monopolize sales of buses and supplies to companies owned by National City Lines' in what became known as

570-513: The line was extended north from the original northern terminus at Olney Terminal by the Philadelphia Transportation Company (PTC) and the City of Philadelphia. Fern Rock Transportation Center also hosts the yard and maintenance facilities for the Broad Street Line, and is the line's only above ground station. Fern Rock is the northern terminal for local and express trains on the line, as well as

600-462: The many sources detailing the cities in which, at one time or another, National City Lines owned or controlled transit companies. A star (*) indicates that NCL is understood to have had significant control but not ownership: Additional information: In Los Angeles the Los Angeles Railway (Yellow Cars) was controlled by NCL but not Pacific Electric Railway (Red Cars) Montgomery City Lines

630-602: The purpose of "conspiring to monopolize sales of buses and supplies to companies owned by National City Lines." They were acquitted on the first charge and convicted on the second in 1949. The company has roots back to 1920, when E. Roy Fitzgerald and his brother began operating two buses in Minnesota , transporting miners and schoolchildren. In 1936 the company was organized into a holding company. In 1938, National City Lines wished to purchase transportation systems in cities "where street cars were no longer practicable" and replace them with passenger buses . To fund this expansion

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660-1047: The sale of buses and related products to local transit companies controlled by NCL and other companies; they were acquitted of conspiring to monopolize the ownership of these companies. The verdicts were upheld on appeal in 1951. The corporations involved were fined $ 5000, their executives $ 1 apiece. There is considerable uncertainty and variability amongst sources as to where National City Lines operated. The 1948 ruling stated that: "Forty-four cities in sixteen states are included. The states are as widely scattered as California, Florida, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, Texas and Washington. The larger local transportation systems include those of Baltimore, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, Los Angeles and Oakland. The largest concentrations of smaller systems are in Illinois, with eleven cities; California with nine (excluding Los Angeles); and Michigan with four. The local operating companies were not named as parties defendant." This table attempts to bring together

690-619: The special event service that extends express service to the South Philadelphia Sports Complex . Broad–Ridge Spur trains generally only serve the station on Saturdays and during non-peak weekday hours. All tracks are located at ground level, with Regional Rail platforms oriented north-south and the Broad Street platform oriented east-west, part of a larger balloon loop around the storage yard. SEPTA City Transit Division bus routes The City Transit Division of

720-582: The streetcars systems in Beaumont, Texas . The Butte system, while sound, deliberately replaced to lower the load on the overtaxed electric system, which was primarily used for commercial uses, including electrolytic refining of copper and zinc. In 1938 the company entered into exclusive dealing arrangements and obtained equity funding from companies seeking to increase sales of commercial buses and supplies, including General Motors , Firestone Tire , Standard Oil of California and Phillips Petroleum . The company

750-716: The subway platform. While passengers can readily transfer between the Broad Street Line and the Regional Rail Lines at Fern Rock, such a transfer requires payment of a separate fare of the subway and regional rail, unless the rider possesses a SEPTA Trailpass, which can be used for travel on both subway and regional rail. A non-revenue track connection exists here between the SEPTA Regional Rail Lines and SEPTA's Broad Street Line. A train crash occurred here on January 27, 2009, injuring nine. The Broad Street platforms at Fern Rock Transportation Center opened in 1956, when

780-466: The trucking company Los Angeles-Seattle Motor Express (LASME) in 1959. In 1968, LASME merged with DC International and T.I.M.E. to form T.I.M.E.-DC . National City Lines sold its transportation management division in 1978. National City Lines was later acquired by Harold C. Simmons early in 1981. T.I.M.E.-DC ceased operations in 1988. The company continued as a fully controlled subsidiary of Simmon' Contran operation until December 31, 2007, when it

810-595: Was eliminated and replaced by bus Routes 9, 27, and 32 on February 4, 1984. 24-hour service 24-hour service Limited service to Darby Stenton Avenue (express) Limited service from Fox Chase Select trips only operate from Frankford to Krewstown Road and Gregg Street York Road (Warminster service) Trips alternate between Wycombe and 61st Street terminals Roxborough service removed in 2011 Special fare required: $ 6 or Zone-3 TrailPass. Weekday late night only Limited Stop Service in Center City Service

840-709: Was indicted in 1947 and was later convicted in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois of conspiring to monopolize the sale of buses and related products to the local transit companies that they controlled. Over 1938 and 1939 the company made purchases in Alabama , Indiana and Ohio . and by 1939, it owned or controlled 29 local transportation companies in 27 different cities in 10 states. American City Lines, which had been organized to acquire local transportation systems in

870-717: Was reorganized as the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company (PRT) on July 1. Despite efforts by Thomas E. Mitten , PRT itself went bankrupt in 1939. A new Philadelphia Transportation Company was formed in 1940 to assume PRT's business. National City Lines (NCL) took over management of the PTC on March 1, 1955, and began a program of converting streetcar lines to bus routes. SEPTA was created in 1962, and purchased PTC's transit operations on September 30, 1968. The former Philadelphia Suburban Transit Company's Red Arrow Lines followed on January 29, 1970, after which SEPTA designated

900-526: Was the National City Lines subsidiary that operated the municipal transit system for Montgomery, Alabama . On 1 December 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to move to the back of a Montgomery City Lines bus. This led to the Montgomery bus boycott . Montgomery City Lines was placed in the middle of a dispute between Montgomery's black citizenry and Montgomery city laws. In a letter published in

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