Some trips on Route 92 are apparently being detoured via Ship Road instead of operating via Boot Rd and PA 100 today. Whether or not this was an official detour remains to be seen, but at least one run was operating via Ship Rd - the 12:20pm from West Chester (204 block). However, later trips were operating along PA 100 as if there were no problems...
The long-delayed Annual Service Plan for route changes affecting Delaware County and West Chester will go to the hearing process starting in late April. Details are expected to be released some time next week. Any changes will be posted here as soon as I get them...
ElDorados from Callowhill are starting to show up on Market St, presumably for training on the Route 76/Spree service. Some sources at SEPTA have gone so far as to admit that ridership is abysmal. They claim that people don't recognize the fully wrapped New Flyers as actually operating a SEPTA route. Given the ridership, I would imagine that a cutaway bus would be more appropriate...
At next week's SEPTA Board Meeting, one of the items on the agenda is the installation of bike racks on the 5500 and 5600 series New Flyers. There's no indication that the NABIs, some "newer" Neoplan 40-ft buses, or the artics would be retrofit with bike racks in the near future, but considering that SEPTA seemed almost hesitant to add racks to the buses in the first place, this is actually a big step...
Speaking of the low floors, Callowhill 5422 and 5461, along with Southern 5487, are now at Frankford Depot for training operators on the new buses. That tends to tell me that the 5500s are about to arrive soon. Now sounds like a good time to get those 8700 and 8800 pictures before they're taken off the road...
This weekend marks the last weekend of bus-bridges on the Market St El. Next week, the Frankford El will see buses between Center City and Frankford, with the usual local/express patterns in place for the Frankford side.
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