Some Things You Didn't Know About SEPTA

How much do you really know about everyone's favorite almost-convenient sketch-machine public transportation? Probably not enough, because we imagine there's an infinite amount of fun facts from this party train. For example, did you know that it was a team from Penn that developed the organization of the Regional Rail system? Crazy!

Anyways, in even more important SEPTA news, all of the R trains are getting a name change on July 25. Watch out: you Main Line folks will now just be "Thorndale" instead of the "R5 towards Thorndale." Apparently, people were getting confused and doing things like getting on the R5 towards Doylestown, which is like, not the right direction.

But oh no, drama! Penn prof Vukan R. Vuchic has recently come out against the switch in an Inquirer editorial. He says it'll just make things more confusing and encourage less travel throughout the whole region, not just to Center City. If there's one thing we can take from that, it's that he's a professor of transportation. We have those? That's awesome.

Edit: An earlier version of this post had me not knowing where things are in the greater Philadelphia area. It's been edited for geographic accuracy.