Eagles Football and SEPTA Broad Street Line "Sports Express" Service Set For Game Against The Bears

SEPTA is the best way to avoid expected traffic delays for several weekend events in South Philadelphia Stadium Complex area

October 18, 2007

PHILADELPHIA, PA  – SEPTA Broad Street line “Sports Express” is set to ‘tackle’ the flood of fans en route to Lincoln Financial Field as our Philadelphia Eagles will be playing with the momentum of last weekends’ victory as they take on last years’ NFC Champions, the Chicago Bears, for Sunday’s 4:15 p.m. game.

Broad Street Line "Sports Express" trains make limited stops en route to Pattison Station and the South Philadelphia Sports Complex. “Sports Express” trains will leave Fern Rock Transportation Center every ten minutes from 1:10 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

“Sports Express” trains stop only at the Olney Transportation Center, Erie, Girard, Spring Garden, Race-Vine, City Hall and Walnut-Locust Stations en route to Pattison Station and the Sports Complex.The express trip from City Hall to the Sports Complex takes only about eight minutes.In addition, local trains will also be in service about every 12 minutes throughout the day. Local trains take about 15 minutes to travel between City Hall and Pattison Stations.

An average of over 9,000 fans used Broad Street Line service to travel to the first two home-games this season as thousands of fans have discovered that they can avoid the expected traffic delays, parking fines and fees in the Sports Complex area by traveling the frequent, comfortable, and convenient "Sports Express" service to every home game.

In addition, Eagles fans driving into Center City can park at any one of five city-owned parking lots for only $5.00 where they can also purchase a two-pack of SEPTA tokens ($2.90). The parking lots are just steps away from the Broad Street Line City Hall Station where they will be able to board scheduled southbound trains to the stadium.

The parking lots include:

·AutoPark - JFK Plaza Garage - 15^th & Arch Streets

·AutoPark - Center City Lot - 15^th & Arch Streets

·Gateway Garage - 15^th & Vine Streets

·AutoPark - Gallery Mall - 10^th & Filbert Streets

·AutoPark - Jefferson - 10^th & Ludlow Streets

To make the subway trip more convenient, SEPTA will open the lower level platform at Pattison Station before and after the game allowing for easier travel into and out of the station; after the game fans will find trains standing by to provide local and express service back to Fern Rock.

The SEPTA Broad Street Line is the best route to several other sporting events at the Sports Complex this weekend including the Power House concert at the Wachovia Center at 6.p.m. on Friday, October 19, and the Temple-Miami (Ohio) football game at Lincoln Financial Field at 12 p.m., Flyers-Hurricanes hockey at the Wachovia Center, and Phantoms-Bruins hockey at the Spectrum both on Saturday at 7 p.m., October 20.

For additional information call SEPTA Customer Service at (215) 580-7800 or access the SEPTA web site at www.septa.org. For information about the city-owned parking lots call Linda Miller at the Philadelphia Parking Authority at (215) 683-9675.