{"id":258041,"date":"2026-08-03T02:24:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/258041\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T02:24:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T02:24:06","slug":"penn-transit-revamps-maps-renames-bus-routes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/258041\/","title":{"rendered":"Penn Transit revamps maps, renames bus routes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Penn Transit will rename fixed bus routes and introduce color-coded maps in an effort to simplify student navigation.<\/p>\n

The changes, which will be implemented Monday, come as a follow-up to revisions<\/a> made in March, Senior Director of Business Services Joe Russo told The Daily Pennsylvanian. Routes will be named after the locations they visit and coded with corresponding colors, rather than being titled by modal direction.<\/p>\n

Penn Bus East will become the Rittenhouse Square Loop, Penn Bus West will become the Baltimore\/Spruce Loop, and Penn Bus North will become the Powelton\/Spruce Loop, with all three still operating from 4 p.m. to midnight on weekdays. The Pennovation Works Day Loop will retain its name and continue to operate weekdays from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we heard our students telling us is that the overall Penn Transit system needed to be clearer,\u201d Russo said. \u2018\u2018\u2018North\u2019 was too confusing. \u2018West\u2019 did not make sense to where we were actually going because we\u2019re in West Philly.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

In addition, Penn students will now be able to view SEPTA\u2019s Loop through University City and Drexel bus routes \u2014 both of which are accessible to PennCard holders for free, like Penn Transit\u2019s services \u2014 on the Penn Transit Mobile app.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn one spot, you can know how to get around campus,\u201d Russo said. \u201cOur four routes, the two LUCY routes, and the three Drexel routes are all in one location.\u201d<\/p>\n

These latest changes are based on feedback gathered from the Student Transit Advisory Board \u2014 which includes both undergraduate and graduate students \u2014 and the Undergraduate Assembly, as well as through focus groups and a student survey.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Russo additionally explained that these updates build upon changes made to the evening safety shuttle in March. Based on student concerns about long wait times, Penn Transit introduced five new shuttle stops and a \u201cstep-to-the-stop\u201d model requiring riders to walk to designated pickup locations. According to Russo, the changes reduced average wait times from about 15 minutes to roughly 11 or 12 minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything that we\u2019ve done or talked about really is a direct result of one of those many conversations with the student leaders,\u201d Russo said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In June, Penn Transit also introduced a monthly SEPTA pass option through the Campus Express platform at a 15% discount, which must be purchased by the 14th of the month prior to the pass\u2019s month of use. Previously, students could only purchase semester-long passes at a 10% discount.<\/p>\n

Russo said that the new offering provides students with additional flexibility, rather than being \u201clocked into a semester pass.\u201d Monthly passes are also available in the summer, when semester passes are not available.<\/p>\n

According to Russo, the best way to use the Penn Transit app is to use the trip planner feature, which provides several route options to reach a destination.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat this has taught us is that our students don\u2019t necessarily know about all of the services that Penn Transit offers and how to use them,\u201d Russo said. \u201cIn most cases, you would find that a fixed route is the quicker and more efficient way to get where you are going.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Penn Transit will rename fixed bus routes and introduce color-coded maps in an effort to simplify student navigation.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-258041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}