SEPTA’s annual Trolley Tunnel Blitz, originally scheduled for nine days in July but postponed due to the Regional Rail issue, will take place on weekends and weekday nights starting Friday, Aug. 12.
SEPTA Trolley Routes 10, 11, 13, 34 and 36 will not operate in the Center City tunnel on the following weekends:
• 8 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 12 to 4:30 a.m. Monday, Aug. 15
• 8 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 19 to 4:30 a.m. Monday, Aug. 22
• 8 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 26 to 4:30 a.m. Monday, Aug. 29
Trolleys will not operate in the tunnel on weeknights from 8 p.m. to 4:30 a.m. on August 15-19 and 22-26. Trolleys will use the tunnel on weekdays during peak rush hours and throughout the day (from 4:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.).
During the closures, trolley service will begin and end at 40th and Market Streets. Trolley passengers can board the Market-Frankford Line at 40th Street Station for travel to and from Center City.
More information about the Trolley Tunnel Blitz is available on septa.org.
August 16th, 2016 at 10:35 am
What is this ‘Trolley Blitz’? Is this like a diligent and productive effort by SEPTA just to simply clean up a bit, touch up the rails and ties and even maybe add an even more pleasing cosmetic make over to our already efficient light rail system? When I think of blitz, I think of like engineers, mechanics, and steel workers and teaming up for a hands on project just for us! Working in tandem in the heat and the sun and laughing over a cool drink and just wiping the sweat from the brow and savoring the pride, the, I don’t know, camaraderie, and an American made radio belting out the irreverent guitar licks of say, Big Country, the upturned hijinx of Steve Miller’s band of musical misfits simply to make those well oiled mechanized trolleys just a bit nicer. With stoic anticipation I whisper meaningfully, “bravo”