80th Street/Eastwick station

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 80th St/Eastwick
Restroom at the center of the Eastwick loop
General information
LocationIsland Avenue near 81st Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates39°53′56″N 75°14′22″W / 39.8988°N 75.2394°W / 39.8988; -75.2394
Owned by SEPTA
Construction
AccessibleNo
History
ElectrifiedOverhead lines
Services
Preceding station SEPTA Metro Following station
Terminus
major stops
73rd–Elmwood
Location

80th Street/Eastwick station is a SEPTA Metro trolley terminal station in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is the western terminus of the T5 route and is located at Island Avenue near its former intersection with Eastwick Avenue near Interstate 95 in the Eastwick neighborhood of Southwest Philadelphia. The Eastwick station of the SEPTA Regional Rail Airport Line, which serves Philadelphia International Airport, is within about a half mile walking distance of the station using Mario Lanza Boulevard along the southern edge of the a adjacent Penrose Plaza Shopping Center property. North of Eastwick Loop, the trolleys travel in an unpaved median parallel to Island Avenue until entering the street at Buist Avenue. Currently, PENNDOT is reconfiguring the Island Avenue roadway layout so until that is complete, trolleys currently end at 73rd Street and Elmwood Avenue and a shuttle bus connects passengers from there to the loop.

Until April 25, 1975, Route 36 (T5) trolleys would continue west along what was called Eastwick Avenue out to 88th Street, where a single counterclockwise loop was built in the swamplands. This was originally the routing of former Subway Surface Streetcar Trolley Route 37, which was merged into Route 36 on November 6, 1955.