Late afternoon today a unknown Elmwood trolley (reportedly 9072) operating on route 13 collided with a truck. The collision occurred at 48th Street and Chester Avenue, up to 20 people that were on board  suffered major injures. More news will fellow as it will becomes available.
  

This weekend the EI service will be shut down from 40th and market to 69th street terminal and will have bus shuttles. This will commence Friday Oct 7th at 10pm until Monday Oct 10th 5AM. (Kyle O.)

Two Neoplan artics #7115 and #7185 both sported a side wrap advertising heathcare.

There are now 16 2005 New Flyer D40LF currently in revunue service at southern. 8016 was spotted by Kyle O. earlier this morning on the 17. On a related note, 8012 after being in service for only one week is already sporting a rear WDAS ad.

Recently it appears that SEPTA has started a practice which the New York City Metropolitan Transportation Authority (NYCMTA) has going on for five years. That practice is repainting buses for every nine months, however SEPTA does not repaint buses every nine months. Many nabi's that has received overhauls within the 1-2 year range has been repainted. Some of them come into service with new seat fabric and replaced instructions on the dashboard. As of this week all of the nabi's that I and my assistants have spotted that has been repainted are, 5036, 5272, 5375, 5077, 5123 and 5167. Of course there are many others and will be passed to you once spotted.

There are now appx 30 8000 series in service 8027 has been spotted on the Route 17 recently. On a related note, Southern is starting to put the 8000 series on other routes as well. These routes are 2, 17, 64, 37, 108, G, and the route C.