4000 Series Bus

[philly57]

What is this bus route? It's not on SEPTA's website and I've never once seen one. The funny thing is that it appears that many of SEPTA's signs in the area are new. If this is a discontinued route, why is the 4000 series still on the sign?

[Lyceum]

The 400 buses are special routes---I believe they used to be used as Septa bus training routes and/or for schools.

[Politburo]

Yeah, it's basically a school bus, but my understanding is that SEPTA can't run private buses and they are technically available to the public if you managed to get or figure out the schedule.

[D-man]

The 400 series buses that you see on Ridge Ave are typically dropping off kids from outside the neighborhood at Roxborough HS.

[OldMama]

Actually most of them go to which is a special admission city-wide school.

[Rach013]

Yeah, it's basically a school bus, but my understanding is that SEPTA can't run private buses and they are technically available to the public if you managed to get or figure out the schedule.

Large groups of HS kids are always so loud and obnoxious when they get on the 9 bus, I can't imagine ever desiring to find my way onto a bus full of 'em!

I remember when I first moved here I was curious about the 400 routes too, a friend explained them to me, pretty sure they do it in other areas of Philly too, usually high 3 digit numbered busses, they only run around school hours...

[philly57]

Large groups of HS kids are always so loud and obnoxious when they get on the 9 bus, I can't imagine ever desiring to find my way onto a bus full of 'em!

This must explain why Roxborough HS is one of the city's most violent schools, despite the fact that the area it serves is one of the city's least violent areas.

Imagine the potential if the city admitted defeat and ended this idiotic, PC, social experiment of busing kids in from the ghetto.

[pjrb]

I've heard the reason RHS is among the most 'violent' according to statistics is that the new principal reports everything, as opposed to other city high school administrators that treat fights, stabbings, beatings, sex in the hall as business-as-usual and report only the most egregious incidents.

[Debbie1125]

Imagine the potential if the city admitted defeat and ended this idiotic, PC, social experiment of busing kids in from the ghetto.

Just think, busing was supposed to achieve integration in the public schools. It's been a massive failure. When I was in high school it was mandatory to go to the school in your district. Maybe they should have kept that system.