{"id":32028,"date":"2025-07-02T07:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/32028\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T07:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:40:12","slug":"septas-trolley-tunnel-blitz-to-pause-center-city-service-on-5-lines-for-1-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/32028\/","title":{"rendered":"SEPTA&#8217;s Trolley Tunnel Blitz to pause Center City service on 5 lines for 1 month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five SEPTA trolley routes will suspend service to Center City for about four weeks this summer so the transit authority can perform annual maintenance work in the trolley tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>Trolley services for routes T1 to T5 will begin and end at 40th and Market Streets in West Philadelphia from 10 p.m. on Friday, July 11, to 6 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 11. Riders traveling to and from Center City are advised to take the Market-Frankford Line or buses to complete their trips.<\/p>\n<p><b>MORE<\/b>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/philly-worker-strike-trash-collection-city-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Thousands of Philly workers are on strike, disrupting trash collection and other city services<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During SEPTA&#8217;s Trolley Tunnel Blitz, crews replace tracks, clear pipes and drains, remove graffiti, clean trolley stations and perform maintenance work on the tunnel&#8217;s signal system.\u00a0Simultaneously, PennDOT plans to make repairs to the tunnel under the Schuylkill River.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The tunnel blitz is about twice as long this year as prior years, because SEPTA plans to skip it next year,\u00a0when Philadelphia hosts the FIFA World Cup, MLB All-Star Game and U.S. semiquincentennial celebrations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The blitz gives our crews the opportunity to tackle construction, maintenance, and safety improvement work in a concentrated period of time to reduce the number of outages throughout the year,&#8221; SEPTA General Manager Scott Sauer <a href=\"https:\/\/wwww.septa.org\/news\/trolley-tunnel-to-close-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 13th year in a row that SEPTA has conducted the tunnel blitz. The transit authority schedules it for the summer, because there are fewer riders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five SEPTA trolley routes will suspend service to Center City for about four weeks this summer so the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,14655,50,1448,2830,1311,26945,15940,522,26946,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-32028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-center-city","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-public-transit","15":"tag-septa","16":"tag-transportation","17":"tag-trolleys","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114782511376026819","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}