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Transit · Under construction

Trolley Modernization Program

40th Street Portal, West Philadelphia

Replace the entire Routes 10/11/13/15/34/36 trolley fleet with new low-floor, accessible vehicles. Includes accessible station rebuilds along the West Philadelphia subway-surface lines.

Council district
District 3
Neighborhood
University City
Funding source
Federal CIG + State + Local match
Funding amount
$2,300,000,000
Start date
Jan 1, 2022
Completion
Dec 31, 2030
First seen in feed
5/16/2026
Your council representative
Jamie Gauthier
District 3 · D
215-686-0454
City Hall Room 580
588 projects in this district
3367 housing units approved
Registered Community Organization
Spruce Hill Community Association
The RCO that gets formal notice of zoning changes here. Going to them first is how most organizing on a project starts.
Contact: Julie Bush
2672612030
Meets: Spruce Hill Community Center 257 S 45th St Philadelphia, PA 19104; Virtual: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81135129776?pwd=TGlGMlhqdXF4Znl0UzR0QXF1SG1rdz09
Neighborhood context (census tract 008802)
Median income
$21,064
Renter occupied
93.85%
Rent burdened
66.35%
(of renters, 30%+ of income)
Population
6,156
ACS 5-year 2022

Nearby projects

within 400m walk

Displacement signal

L&I demolition permits, last 3 yrs, within 400m

Philly doesn't publish eviction filings, so this uses demolition permits as the closest proxy for housing stock loss in the immediate area. 14 permits found.

17 N 41ST STApr 20, 2026
4201 CHESTNUT STDec 15, 2025
4070 POWELTON AVEDec 4, 2025
4105 WALNUT STNov 25, 2025
4236 CHESTNUT STJan 16, 2025
4055 MARKET STDec 2, 2024
119-25 S 39TH STOct 11, 2024
28 N 40TH STAug 28, 2024
4145-47 CHESTNUT STAug 27, 2024
4008 CHESTNUT STAug 26, 2024
26 N 40TH STApr 8, 2024
18 N 40TH STApr 8, 2024

Recent transfers within 200m

Block-level acquisition pattern. 1 transaction in the immediate area.

4050 LUDLOW ST
UA 4050 LLCJADE ENTERPRISES 26 LLC
Dec 31, 2025
$2,689,579
Data source · last refreshed 5/16/2026, 5:36:43 PM
SEPTA Capital Budget Projects
SEPTA

Manually curated, not a live feed. Refreshed each budget cycle (annual). Locations are approximate for line-wide projects (we plot the project at the line midpoint). Funding amounts are total project cost, not annual spend.