THE GREEN LINE - Subway-Surface
THE GREEN LINE TROLLEYS are referred to as Subway-surface lines and are subterranean in Center City emerging west of the Schuylkill in University City. They radiate out from a single point. [See SEPTA.] Unfortunately the free maps of the subway fall short on this point. They do not indicate where the trolleys go by giving a cross street. [see detail] Don't expect the operator to tell you, either, even though they are supposed to call out the station names. Detailed maps are no longer available from SEPTA. Some colleges offer decent maps to students. The posters on the platforms of Green line stops are nearly useless. SEPTA recently up-dated it's website. Now it has a map with cross-streets indicated.


link to  clear map on SEPTA site
maps like this poster-size one are not available for hand-out

If you transfer to the Green Line, there is green paint on railings etc to indicate you are on the correct platform. The trolley itself is white. It may stop twice in a station: once to let passengers off, then a few yards closer to pick them up. At a transfer station you may get on via the rear or front doors. If you are not coming from the subway or have not paid your fare at a turnstile, enter the front of the car as you would on a bus. The trolley only stops if there are passengers on the platform or someone trips the wire. Otherwise, the operator passes through stations. To exit via the rear doors, you have to step down into the step well. Otherwise the doors wont open and the trolley will continue on.

There are 5 Green lines: 10, 11, 13, 34, and 36. 10 goes northwest, the rest head southwest. You can take any of them from Center City to 33th Street Station. After this, the 10 splits off and heads northeast. You may ride any of the remaining as far as 40th Street, after that, they split up in southeastern paths.

The ominous flashing blue light. No, it is not a K-mart special...
photo of Flashing Blue Light sign on the Green line

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