SEPTA Suburban Bus
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| Slogan | Serious About Change. |
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| Parent | SEPTA |
| Founded | 1968 |
| Headquarters | Philadelphia, PA |
| Locale | Suburban Philadelphia |
| Service area | Suburban Philadelphia |
| Service type | Local bus service |
| Routes | 48 |
| Fleet | 250 |
| Operator | See main article |
| Chief executive | Joseph Casey (general manager) |
| Website | septa.org |
The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority operates or contracts operations of these routes serving points in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery counties, with a few routes operating into the city of Philadelphia. The Suburban Transit Division is broken down into three divisions. Victory (Formerly: Red Arrow Division), Frontier, and Contract Operations.
These routes are operated from the Victory Division, located at the 69th Street Transportation Center in Upper Darby Township, Delaware County. This also includes 101 Media, 102 Sharon Hill, and Norristown High Speed Line rail operations. These routes were once operated by the Philadelphia Suburban Transportation Company, better known by its nickname "Red Arrow Lines". Routes in the Chester area of Delaware County as well as Chester Pike operations were once operated by Southern Penn Bus Lines, which the Red Arrow took control of on June 30, 1960. Today, Routes 114, 117, and 118 are leftovers of the old Southern Penn system. The Philadelphia Transportation Company's "PTC" Folsom Division bus routes (former Routes 71, 76, and 77 trolley lines as well as bus Route 82) were taken over by Red Arrow Lines on January 20, 1961. Since that time the Ex-PTC routes have been eliminated or consolidated into the current route system. SEPTA took over Red Arrow Lines on January 29, 1970. This was one of the last privately owned transit operations left in the United States. Even today some longtime residents, transit historians, and the local news media still refer to this operation as SEPTA's Red Arrow Division. In 2011 SEPTA renamed 69th Street Terminal to 69th Street Transportation Center.
The first version of Route 112 ran from 69th Street Terminal to the Oakview section of Upper Darby. Formerly: Red Arrow's Route "F" redesignated Route 112 on June 16, 1975. Service eliminated November 28, 1983. Service between 69th Street Terminal and Lansdowne Ave. merged into Route 113. Oakview loop merged into Route 107.
The First version of Route 116 ran from Chester to Granite Run Mall and Penn State (Lima Campus) via Lenni. This was formerly PTC/Red Arrow Route 77 redesignated Route 116 on June 30, 1986. Route 77 was one of PRT's Folsom Division trolley lines.
These routes are operated from the Frontier garage in Plymouth Township, Montgomery County. This division of SEPTA was created through a combination of former Schuylkill Valley Line services in the Norristown area and Trenton Philadelphia Coach Line services in the Lower Bucks County area. Routes 96 to 99 which helped form the original five SEPTA Frontier Division Routes were once part of the old "Schuylkill Valley Lines" that SEPTA acquired on March 1, 1976. The old Schuylkill Valley Lines routes were then restructured into five routes on March 7, 1977 with Route 95 being a new route. Routes 127 to 129 were once part of the old Trenton Philadelphia Coach Lines "TPC" which became a subsidiary of the Philadelphia Transportation Company "PTC" on January 24, 1963. When SEPTA took over PTC, Trenton Philadelphia Coach became a subsidiary of SEPTA. These routes were assigned Routes 150 to 153 in 1980. These routes continued to operate under SEPTA/TPC until November 14, 1983 when SEPTA Frontier Division took over the operations of these routes and rebranded them Routes 127, 128, and 129. All other routes have been added onto the system since then. Trenton-Philadelphia Coach Lines was brought back to life by SEPTA as a contract operation for its Routes 310 and LUCY (Route 316) operations.
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