PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Starting next weekend, most SEPTA buses and trolleys will only display their new names, not the old route numbers riders may have been used to.
In an effort to make the system simpler to navigate, SEPTA in February 2025 changed nearly all of its bus route designations to numbers, and train and trolley routes to letters. The Route 34 trolley, for example, became the T2.
“Calling them T1 through 5 instead of 10, 11, 13, 34 and 36, you know, it is a change obviously. But it makes sense in the long run,” SEPTA’s Chief of Customer Experience Lex Powers told KYW Newsradio…