Editing Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania (section)

==Transportation==
===Roads and highways===
{{stack|[[File:2022-10-31 15 13 09 View south along Pennsylvania State Route 232 (Huntingdon Pike) just south of Alnwick Road and Tomlinson Road in Bryn Athyn, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.jpg|thumb|right|PA 232 southbound in Bryn Athyn]]}}
As of 2006 there were {{convert|7.86|mi}} of public roads in Bryn Athyn, of which {{convert|0.87|mi}} were maintained by the [[Pennsylvania Department of Transportation]] (PennDOT) and {{convert|6.99|mi}} were maintained by the borough.<ref name=PennDOTmap>{{cite web|url=https://gis.penndot.gov/BPR_pdf_files/Maps/Type5/46403.pdf|title=Bryn Athyn Borough map|publisher=PennDOT|access-date=March 10, 2023}}</ref>

The only numbered highway serving Bryn Athyn is [[Pennsylvania Route 232]], which follows Huntingdon Pike on a north-south route through the borough. Byberry Road, the only other road of significance, passes along the northern and northeastern edges of the borough.

===SEPTA service===
{{main|Bryn Athyn (SEPTA station)}}
Bryn Athyn had commuter train service until January 14, 1983. Service was suspended due to failing train equipment resulting in a lack of ridership. As of 2017, the train station is used as the Bryn Athyn post office.

Though rail service was initially replaced with a Fox Chase-Newtown shuttle bus, patronage remained light. The replacement bus service was far slower and less convenient than the train service it replaced, resulting in the shuttle bus being very unpopular. The travelling public never saw a bus service as a suitable replacement for a rail service.

In the ensuing years, there has been interest in resuming passenger service by [[Bucks County, Pennsylvania|Bucks County]] officials. Neighboring [[Montgomery County, Pennsylvania|Montgomery County]] officials are supportive of re-thinking the rail corridor as well, though the belief within [[SEPTA]] management is that the section through [[Lorimer Park]] and [[Walnut Hill (SEPTA station)|Walnut Hill Station]] (the only sparsely populated section along the railway) will never generate enough riders to be feasible.

In September 2009, the [[Southampton, Pennsylvania|Southampton]]-based Pennsylvania Transit Expansion Coalition (PA-TEC) began discussions with township officials along the railway, as well as SEPTA officials, about the realistic possibility of resuming even minimal passenger service to relieve traffic congestion in the region. Plans call for completing the electrification to Newtown, as originally planned in the late 1970s. Both Bucks and Montgomery County officials, as well as state representatives, have been receptive to PA-TEC's efforts, despite SEPTA's overall reservations. However, SEPTA has also confirmed that they are indeed open to revisiting the line if there is strong political support in both counties.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20091009081604/http://www.r8newtown.com/ r8newtown.com] </ref>{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable ([[WP:NOTRS]]).|date=February 2024}}

All plans for resuming the train service were dropped in 2014 when Montgomery County officials decided to extend the [[Pennypack Trail]] over the derelict rail bed.<ref>{{cite news |first = Dan |last = Clark |title = Montgomery County Commissioners Break Ground on Pennypack Trail Extension over SEPTA Newtown railroad line |work = The Times Herald |date = June 6, 2014 |url= http://www.timesherald.com/general-news/20140606/montgomery-county-commissioners-break-ground-on-pennypack-trail-extension}}</ref>

SEPTA operates the [[SEPTA Route 24|Route 24]] bus, a bus that goes from [[Frankford Transportation Center]] in [[Northeast Philadelphia]] to Southampton. The Route 24 bus goes along Huntingdon Pike while in Bryn Athyn.<ref>{{Cite web |title=February 27, 2022 24 Southampton and Rockledge to Frankford Transportation Center |url=https://www.septa.org/schedules/bus/pdf/024.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220831092332/https://www.septa.org/schedules/bus/pdf/024.pdf |archive-date=August 31, 2022 |website=septa.org}}</ref>

===1921 wreck===

{{main|Bryn Athyn Train Wreck}}
On December 5, 1921, two [[Reading Company|Reading Railroad]] passenger steam trains collided head-on on a blind curve. The impact sent red-hot coals flying forward from each engine, raining down on the wooden passenger cars of the oncoming train. Twenty-seven people were killed and some 70 injured. Most of those killed had burned to death, in part because the wooden cars had burned so quickly and also because of the inability of rescue workers to get access to the trains, which were wedged between the rock walls of a cut through hilly and wooded terrain without road access for fire equipment. The incident led to a ban on the use of wooden rail cars in order to prevent future disasters of a similar nature.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Weckselblatt |first1=Gary |title=Bryn Athyn train crash a 'Titantic' disaster |url=https://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/article/20131201/news/312019866 |access-date=20 November 2020 |work=Bucks County Courier Times |date=1 December 2013}}</ref>