{"id":42697,"date":"2025-11-23T22:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T22:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/42697\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T22:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T22:46:10","slug":"septa-trolley-tunnel-to-remain-closed-through-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/42697\/","title":{"rendered":"SEPTA trolley tunnel to remain closed through November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Jack Tomczuk<\/p>\n<p>SEPTA\u2019s Center City trolley tunnel will remain closed at least through the end of the month, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>That means riders of the T routes, formerly the 10, 34, 13, 11 and 36, will need to transfer onto and off of the Market-Frankford Line at 40th Street to access Center City. The tunnel briefly reopened Nov. 13 but has otherwise been shut down since Nov. 7.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Crews are repairing five miles of overhead infrastructure along the stretch following a pair of incidents in mid-October that resulted in the evacuation of about 450 passengers. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not yet clear when the issues will be resolved and the tunnel will be able to safely reopen,\u201d SEPTA posted <a href=\"https:\/\/wwww.septa.org\/safety\/fra-emergency-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">on its website Friday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Authority officials said 3-inch sliders that connect the vehicles to overhead wires were replaced with 4-inch pieces earlier this fall in an attempt to reduce wear and tear and maintenance costs. SEPTA believes the new parts caused the damage.<\/p>\n<p>On Oct. 31, the Federal Transit Administration, in response to the two evacuations and a pair of unrelated incidents involving trolleys in Delaware County, ordered SEPTA to inspect its entire overhead catenary system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jack Tomczuk SEPTA\u2019s Center City trolley tunnel will remain closed at least through the end of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1157,69,71,70,2618,25556],"class_list":["post-42697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-center-city","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-septa","tag-trolley-tunnel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42697","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=42697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}