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===Buses===
{{Main|SEPTA City Transit Division surface routes|SEPTA Suburban Division bus routes}}

SEPTA lists 115 bus routes, not including about two dozen school trips, with most routes in the City of Philadelphia proper. SEPTA generally employs lettered, one-digit, and two-digit route numbering for its City Division routes; 90-series and 100-series routes for its Suburban Division routes; 200-series routes for its Regional Rail connector routes; 300-series routes for other specialized or third-party contract routes; and 400-series routes for limited-service buses to schools within Philadelphia.

==== Trolleybuses ====
{{Main|Trolleybuses in Philadelphia}}

[[Trolleybus]]es, or trackless trolleys as they are called by SEPTA, operate on routes [[SEPTA Route 59|59]], [[SEPTA Route 66|66]], and [[SEPTA Route 75|75]]. Service resumed in spring 2008 after a nearly five-year suspension.<ref name="approvesbudget">{{Cite news |last=Nussbaum |first=Paul |date=May 29, 2009 |title=SEPTA approves $1.13 billion budget |at=section B, p. 03 |work=[[The Philadelphia Inquirer]] |url=http://www.allbusiness.com/government/government-bodies-offices-regional/12485539-1.html |url-status=dead |access-date=October 12, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707114231/http://www.allbusiness.com/government/government-bodies-offices-regional/12485539-1.html |archive-date=July 7, 2011 |quote=SEPTA returned 38 trackless trolleys last year to routes in Northeast Philadelphia, five years after the board voted to suspend all trackless trolley service for one year. |df=mdy-all}}</ref> Until June 2002, five SEPTA routes were operated with trackless trolleys, using [[AM General]] vehicles built in 1978–79. Routes [[SEPTA Route 29|29]], [[SEPTA Route 59|59]], [[SEPTA Route 66|66]], [[SEPTA Route 75|75]] and [[SEPTA Route 79|79]] used trackless trolleys, but were converted to diesel buses for an indefinite period starting in 2002 (routes 59, 66, 75) and 2003 (routes 29, 79).

The aging AM General trackless trolleys were retired and in February 2006, SEPTA placed an order for 38 new low-floor trackless trolleys from [[New Flyer Industries]], enough for routes 59, 66 and 75, and the pilot trackless trolley arrived for testing in June 2007.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=September–October 2007 |title=Trolleynews |journal=Trolleybus Magazine |location=UK |publisher=National Trolleybus Association |issue=275 |page=119 |issn=0266-7452}}</ref> The vehicles were delivered between February and August 2008. Trackless trolley service resumed on Routes 66 and 75 on April 14, 2008, and on Route 59 the following day, but was initially limited to just one or two vehicles on each route, as new trolley buses gradually replaced the motorbuses serving the routes over a period of several weeks.<ref name="tm280">{{Cite journal |date=July–August 2008 |title=Trolleynews |journal=Trolleybus Magazine |issue=280 |page=95}}</ref>

The SEPTA board voted in October 2006 not to order additional vehicles for Routes 29 and 79, and those routes permanently became non-electric.<ref name="approvesbudget" /><ref>{{Cite journal |date=January–February 2007 |editor-last=Haseldine |editor-first=Peter |title=Trolleynews |url=http://www.trolleybus.co.uk/nta/issue271.pdf |url-status=dead |journal=Trolleybus Magazine |volume=43 |issue=271 |page=23 |issn=0266-7452 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716090451/http://www.trolleybus.co.uk/nta/issue271.pdf |archive-date=July 16, 2011 |access-date=October 12, 2010 |quote=As a result, the 'indefinite suspension' of trolleybus operation of routes 29 and 79 is now a permanent closure, ... |place=UK |df=mdy-all}}</ref>