SEPTA Service Changes For New Year's Eve, New Year's Day

PHILADELPHIA — SEPTA has announced service changes for customers planning to use public transportation on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.

These modifications affect Regional Rail, Metro, and bus routes to accommodate New Year's Eve celebrations and New Year's Day observances.

For New Year's Eve, Regional Rail trains will be on a weekday schedule and offer special late-night service. This additional service will be on the following lines:

• Chestnut Hill East
• Fox Chase
• Lansdale/Doylestown
• Media/Wawa
• Paoli/Thorndale (to Malvern)
• Trenton
• Warminster
• West Trenton
• Wilmington/Newark (to Marcus Hook).

Specific late-night train times are available online here.

Metro lines, including the Broad Street and Market-Frankford lines, will also operate on a weekday schedule. These lines will provide service before and after the New Year's Eve fireworks display at Penn’s Landing, with late-night trains running until 12:30 a.m. Select bus routes will have modified weekday schedules, while all other bus routes will maintain weekday service levels without school trips.

Customers attending fireworks events on the Delaware River waterfront are encouraged to use the Market-Frankford Line to Second Street Station, or use bus routes 5, 12, 17, 21, 25, 33, or 42.

Additionally, the following bus routes will be detoured starting at 8:15 a.m. on 15th Street between JFK Boulevard and Chestnut Street in preparation for the Mummers Parade:

• 4
• 16
• 17
• 27
• 31
• 32
• 33
• 38
• 44
• 48
• 62
• 124
• 125
• B1 Owl
• L1 Owl

See detour details online here.

On New Year's Day, all Regional Rail, Metro, and bus services will operate on a Sunday schedule. Bus route 204 will not be running on New Year's Day. For the most current information, including alerts, advisories, and detours across the system, customers are advised to visit SEPTA's website, follow @SEPTA on social media, or use the official SEPTA app. Customer service is also available by calling 215-580-7800.

_This article includes AI-assisted reporting. Editors reviewed all content for accuracy._