Riding the Philadelphia Subway System & Regional Rail

[@paulculler3800]

Great video l live in NYC and when l come to Philly l always take Septa when I visiting my relatives

[@astroineum]

Those old train's make it feel like a fairy tale very cool!

[@lyndarutherford7975]

Really enjoyed this video. Haven't lived down there since the early '70's, and since I lived in Delco was only familiar with Septa service from there. Never knew about some of the other trains, especially the station in Chinatown.

[@thejazzguy13]

Glad to hear that! Yah the system's got a lot of hidden quirks

[@uncledanny636]

0:57 that scared the crap out of me

[@ayewhyyoumadbro2032]

Cookie lol

[@alonzo9772]

Me too! I peed a little. 😱

[@RetroVibing]

Same here when I was younger

[@TheAverycross]

Thanks so much for this great video! This is very informative as well as entertaining and I'm enjoying it:) Because of the time you took to make this vlog, I know what to expect on my first-ever ride on the SEPTA (to Suburban Station) in a matter of days.

[@joeplavin]

I’ve lived just outside of philly my whole life, I love septa! Thanks for uploading

[@thejazzguy13]

Awesome man and thanks a lot!

[@joeplavin]

thejazzguy13 Aviation my pleasure, subscribed!

[@kevinhoward9593]

Philadelphia does not have a "Downtown", it has a Center City according to the City Charter from the 1600s as the city was only from South Street in the South to Spring Garden in the North, 2nd Street in the East, and 30th in the West. Everything beyond that was outside of the city at one time. Did you know that there originally wasn't a ticket office on the upper level? SEPTA only installed it in the 90s (I think). PRR/PC Passengers had to buy their tickets at the main booths. All the Brass doors and railings are the original 1934 ones.

[@himbourbanist]

lmao literally my first thought as well.

[@mikejustgothere1685]

Native Philadelphians still call it downtown though

[@donovanevans6137]

I live in central Philadelphia and I always ride septa trains just about every day 🚃

[@simonsv9449]

The Broad Ridge-Spur is actually part of the Broad Street Line. It’s just a branch of the main route.

[@kevinhoward9593]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_City,_Philadelphia. 6:16 the Solari Board was replaced on May 1st.

[@Wins_And_Losses]

Good vid,next time get these SEPTA lines. Norristown High Speed Line Subway-Surface Lines Routes 101 and 102

[@respect411]

next time check out the trolleys/locust street line (patco)

[@josephbrichardson3655]

Philadelphia actually had plans to have nine subway lines check the ghost lines of Philadelphia video the lines were laid out to cover most sections of the city but the city in typical Philly style could not move forward with the plans due to politics.

[@libertubey2199]

It was a combination of two world wars, politics and racism from certain neighborhoods. Mayor Frank Rizzo in the 1970's wanted to both extend the Broad Street Line down Roosevelt Blvd (which has been on the planning books since 1913) and connect the former Reading Railroad Lines of Regional Rail with the former Pennsylvania (later Penn-Central) Lines of Regional Rail. The U.S.D.O.T. told him that they will help fund only one of those projects. Rizzo chose the later, thus unifying Regional Rail through the Center City Tunnel, which started construction under Rizzo's second term in 1978 and opened under W. Wilson Goode's first term in 1984. After that Boston's MBTA has been trying to unify their North Boston Lines and South Boston Lines for years (this may have been on the planning books before Philly's) and New York's MTA is doing this somewhat, finally connecting Long Island Railroad to Grand Central Station.

[@danielpedricothe2nd376]

Cast : Broad Street Line , MFL , Trolley , Reg Rail And Amtrak

[@timosha21]

I'm a train or tram (Can't make up my mind) and I approve this video!!!

[@odangoatama98]

i love trains

[@OldMovieRob]

Looks cold

[@alonzo9772]

I pooped myself when the AMTRAK swooped by! 😱

[@GamerRobYT]

This video was interesting

[@dogman8287]

my family live at philly but I was born in DC fun fact septa trains look so cooler than metro idk why but it do

[@Jonathan-RF-402]

0:00 Intro music please??

[@frankconnelly8880]

and since you know your way around,tell me if i can go from philly to washington dc union station on light rail

[@thejazzguy13]

Not all on light rail haha, But you could take Amtrak down

[@frankconnelly8880]

@@thejazzguy13 thank you

[@edwardmiessner6502]

With MARC extending service to Wilmington you'll soon be able to take the Commuter Rail down to Washington DC

[@jeanmfernandez237]

i wish florida has the same train transportation. traffic is bad in florida!

[@ShowemRight]

If FL can pull it off, it would of course be an above ground train system, no subway system because the surface of the entire state of Florida is too close to sea level making the water table very high.

[@mr.everything9120]

Can the broad street line run on the market street line or vice versa?

[@mikejustgothere1685]

Naw, the only instance when the broad street line “runs” on the market frankford line is when they intersect at 15th street, the bsl takes you up and down broad street and the mfl takes you across market street and up in Frankford

[@stephenmarshall7709]

Does SEPTA ever clean the windows on their trains?

[@alexanderlashkevichhi-tech5452]

6:05 - Happy Hanuka.

[@moishglukovsky]

PATCO goes east into New Jersey, not Delaware.

[@thejazzguy13]

You’re absolutely right, thx for catching that! I’ve fixed the description :)

[@lunarentertainment6809]

10:31

[@ninakim7282]

Great.

[@juliogutierrez6521]

Very interesting video

[@thejazzguy13]

Thanks!

[@SargonOfAmerish]

Why the weird music though :/

[@rendragmedia]

Weird? Friend, he is The Jazz Guy. Besides it makes for a nice presentation.

[@RedArrow73]

So they quit gopinna Delaware again?

[@diavolo1318]

Videos you can smell

[@robloxapexlegends8401]

0:58 A northeast corridor come

[@randellstevens4545]

Never been to a "modern" city before. How does the subway system get it's funding? Doesn't look like you pay on boarding.

[@jg-7780]

Most transit in cities in funded by taxes and supplemented by fares. You pay your fare before you board, as there are gates that you must walk through before you reach the platform, and to pass through those gates you need to pay or use a pre-paid pass like the one he showed at the start of the video.

[@randellstevens4545]

@@jg-7780 ok so you go to a desk and buy admission?

[@jg-7780]

​@@randellstevens4545 Every system is a little different, but in general: In some specific circumstances you are able to buy a ticket from a ticket desk, but in most metro/subway systems you primarily pay using a RFID or magnetic strip card specifically made for use with that system. If you're system is more modern, you might be able to use you're phone or certain types of credit/debit cards in place of a card made specifically for the metro system you're using. Stations will have fare machines that will take payment, and then store however much money you choose to pay as a value on the card. If you don't have a card you can also get a new card from the same fare machine. When you want to ride, you walk up to an automatic gate or turnstile. You then tap or swipe your card at a device which reads the value stored on your card, subtracts the price of the ride, and stores the new lower value on your card. Assuming you had enough value on your card to pay the fare, the gates will open or turnstile will unlock, allowing you to walk through. This whole process from approaching the gate to scanning your card and walking through should only take a couple seconds. By directing individual ride payments through this card system, a station can accommodate thousands of people going through a station, paying their fare, and getting on a train without having to fumble around for change or speak with a ticket office, which would otherwise significantly impede the efficiency of a station. Many systems also allow various deals where you can buy unlimited ride passes that are valid for a certain amount of time, in which case when you tap/swipe your card at the gate, if will see that you have an unlimited pass and let you through. Unlimited passes are also usually sold at the same fare machines I mentioned earlier. Also worth noting is that this whole setup is typically reserved for systems that are expected to get significant crowds where throughput is crucial, such as a metro or subway system. For rail systems that don't need to have as high of an efficiency like a light rail, different styles of payment are used, such as having to scan your card as you board the vehicle, or relying on periodic random fare checks by security for everyone on board instead of installing automatic gates at every station. Hopefully that answers most of your questions, I tried my best to give a thorough response.

[@randellstevens4545]

@@jg-7780 Thank you very much. I am planning an urban vacation and had a hard time finding detailed information on the subject. I don't have a cell phone or credit/debit cards, but I assume cash works just fine? Either way the information is greatly appreciated!

[@jg-7780]

Randell Stevens Cash should work with the fare machines. I’d be sure to do plenty of research regarding whichever system you plan on using as too frequently they are not user friendly for someone new to transit, and no two systems are completely alike.

[@sneezeloweze3953]

The dark ones are coming

[@coastal399]

Another Great Video

[@MIGMobilidadeUltraNightBear]

What is the name of this song?

[@planetsky7614]

they really need to clean the trains

[@gameandbros5462]

I'm suprised you didn't run into the girl who sell candy.

[@papasmurf3364]

How can I travel from Philly to New York every day cheap

[@Ykcin978]

megabus

[@changeoflife3658]

Patco 1$ Riverline 1.50 and then NJT 12.50

[@josephbrichardson3655]

Take NJ Transit Train at 34th Street to Trenton which is end of the line, get off catch the Septa R7 Train into Center City

[@marvinrodriguez7971]

Transformers 2 Creed/Rocky Eastrail 177 & I Think I Love My Wife

[@joshuafajardo5697]

🚆🚇

[@Tiffanynyc2323]

Could never be nyc!!! Ever!!! Like ever!!!!!!

[@zachr4526]

Philadelphia doesn’t want to be NYC

[@kaiizol]

Philly is better NYC is just a dirty rat infested mess

[@edwardmiessner6502]

I heard horror stories about NYC

[@brandontorres4499]

@@edwardmiessner6502 yeah but even then Philly is a rougher city

[@mikejustgothere1685]

We weren’t trying to be like nyc, hop off

[@TimaRoxx]

Septa looks like new jersey😂

[@eliasziad7864]

Philadelphia's subways looks like a sewage tunnel.

[@luismunoz2456]

What a horrible subway. It is old and dirty. Many "third world countries" have better system.

[@debdeepdas9933]

Those trains are so ugly and old almost like trains from third world countries. it's hard to believe those are American

[@RetardedBombycid]

STFU your trains are dirty and have people riding on top of it. They're also ugly as shit. It's amazing you're the one trying to criticize us of all things. SEPTA is underfunded by the government, they don't have any money for new equipment. Third world countries probably don't even have trains running at all.

[@dogman8287]

really bro they look so cool better than metro

[@dukctape]

lol my man they're just run of the mill EMU's. There's nothing extra shoddy about them, they're just a bit old. SEPTA is a funding nightmare and doesn't have the capital (or rather, refuses to allow itself to earn the capital) to buy fancy digital subway cars like DC and NY.

[@kaiizol]

At least our trains don't have trash and mice everywhere 🤣🤣😂😂

[@huey1153]

ImmortalGamer You’re right, they have homeless people instead

[@dumontthe5th]

could have done without the music; served no purpose; did not enhance the viewing experience at all in my opinion. I use KZbin to play and hear my music; don't need the music when I'm watching the subway videos!