SEPTA Comly depot is located in the Northeast section of Philadelphia. It is located two blocks away from SEPTA Frankford depot. The routes which operates from Comly operates primary in the Upper Northeast and Bucks County. Its address is 6000 Penn St in Philadelphia, PA.
Comly depot was originally built as a Philadelphia Rapid Transit bus garage in appoximately 1926. Then inherited by the Philadelphia Transit Company in 1940 and finally SEPTA on 9/27/1968. It was one of the first bus only facilities built in Philadelphia.
Thoughout the 1940s through 1980s, there was lot of devopment in far Northeast sections of Philadelphia. Comly being located in the Norrtheast picked up many of these bus routes.
Today, These following routes are operates out of Comly:
Fixed bus routes
1 , 14, 19 , 67, 20, 24, 28, 58, 70, 78, 84, 88, Market-Frankford OWL and BLVD Direct
School bus routes:
450, 452,461, 462, 475, 476, 477, 478, 490, 492
Historically Comly would have some of the oldest buses assigned to it. This is due to the factor that school trippers or runs makes up a portion of their runs. Today over 150 buses are assigned to Comly ranging from 40 foot buses to 62 foot buses.
Credits to Michael T Greene and Christopher Crafter