The Least Used Station on SEPTA
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Published 2022-08-10
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All Comments (21)
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This station provides public transportation access to a park with hiking, picnic tables and playgrounds. This is what public transportation should do. It addresses one barrier to outside play in nature for people who don’t have cars. But there are so many other barriers.
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It's Smedley Park.. fun fact the trolley can only stop for the residents who live on Paper Mill Rd after sunset. Anyone else getting off can be issued a citation for being in Smedley Park after hours.
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"Someone had some fun here" Aww, they tried to make out with the station to create another least-used station...how kind
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Paper Mill Road boards: 6; leaves: 9 And the route's eastern terminus is 69th Street...double nice
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So very proud of my hometown for hosting the raunchiest Miles in Transit video.
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As someone whose use that station (that park is a primo stoner spot lol) quite often when I lived on the 101, it's a special little place. Though at this point it main purpose is to feed the park and the park itself has kinda been dying....then again they ran a major interstate through the middle of it in the 1990s so that's explains it
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In case your curious, New Jersey Transit’s least used station is Mt Olive on the Morristown line and the Montclair Boonton Line with 16 average weekday riders
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I came close to getting married in this park during early covid, as a nice outdoor space that was outside city limits (philly parks were officially not allowing food or beverage consumption at this point, and I am nothing if not a park rule follower) where my partner and our five friends could easily gather for a self-uniting ceremony and drink champagne. instead... it happened in collingdale
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so many hidden gems on SEPTA, holy cow
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Whoa that's crazy - I was JUST looking at that station on Google Maps and Street View the other day The "alright, stop it!" at the end got me lol
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my trolley broken down there and I was forced to walk up Paper Mill Rd to Baltimore Pike to Springfield Mall. The hike up that hill is a workout. I usually ride that trolley to work daily because the 110 bus takes forever to get to 69th St.
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I wanted to visit this station after I watched this video. When I got there late afternoon, I took a stroll on the Springfield Trail and explored Smedley Park. I did see 1 person board the trolley when I arrived, and when I got on the trolley there was one other person waiting. Other than that there's not much to do or see there, but it's a nice station.
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From Wikipedia: "The Sharon Hill Line (Route 102) was originally built by the Philadelphia and West Chester Traction Company, and opened on March 15, *1906*, and the Media Line (Route 101) was originally built by the same company, opening on April 1, *1913*. The lines were later bought by the Philadelphia Suburban Transit Company in 1954." Orange Street, Media, is the last stop. (I used to get on here when I lived in Media.)
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You are lucky that Station is still open , if it was here in Auckland New Zealand it would have been bulldozed years ago . As 1 station on their network was getting around 400 passengers a day , it was closed and 6 months later at the Easter 4day weekend it was gone never to be seen again .
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Thank you for bringing us this very interesting and informative video presentation which is very much appreciated by the people.
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Ahh good ole Smedly park. Great mountain biking there, only if i could get my bike on the trolley
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I'll have to check out this station and boost the ridership. My wife and I moved last week from Alexandria, Va., to Drexel Hill, Pa. (still car free, much cheaper).
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I always thought the main reason for this station was to serve the park. I don’t think it’s a station used by commuters as much as people using the park for recreation. I would bet there are more users on the weekend rather than a week day.
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Love to see these less common stations being shown. Nice to explore. Thank you for the fun videos.
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Nice vid Septa rt 101 has some very interesting features
