

“Anything that can happen, I’ve seen happen on the Route 23.”

“It’s terrible,” notes a passenger in a Chicago Bulls winter hat who doesn’t want to share his name. Philly gets new bus shelters at no cost to taxpayers.SEPTA's Route 23: A window on Philadelphia.SEPTA to split bus Route 23 into two, create Route 45.

It doesn’t take long for Tom Casetta, program director on the Internet radio station that will soon shift to an FM frequency, to start hearing tales while producer Jill Saull captures images of passengers and the bus passing by. Their mission: Spend the next several hours riding what was once the world’s longest streetcar line – south to Broad Street and Oregon Avenue, and back again – talking to riders on a route that, as of Sunday, will be split in half. 5696 in Chestnut Hill with audio equipment and a camera in tow. on the last business-as-usual weekday before the extended Thanksgiving weekend, and a duo from Gtown Radio boards Route 23 bus No.
