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Public Transit

 The mass transit network in the Philadelphia region is operated by the South Eastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority. (SEPTA) SEPTA operates numerous commuter rail networks connecting the suburbs and New Jersey with Philadelphia's Center City, including a high speed rail line to and from Norristown. Trains run on the half hour during peak travel times with both local and express service into the city. The Market-Frankford and Broad Street subway lines typically appear at five to ten minute intervals and form an east-west and north-south artery of subway service along the two main axes of the city's center. Several trolley lines further complement SEPTA's far more expansive bus service into the more remote suburbs.

 More than 800,000 people ride some form of SEPTA transportation a day in the Delaware Valley. Many people view it as the safer, less expensive, and more relaxing way to travel to the city given the time it takes to commute into the city by car, the high congestion on the roads leading to the city, the high cost of contract parking or by the hour parking lots, and the scarcity of on street parking.

Regional Rail Map