Legal notice
The publisher, the line between this guide and the transit agency, and the terms you read it on
Who publishes this site
Philadelphia Metro (philadelphiametro.org) is published by a private individual based in Spain. There is no company behind it, no newsroom and no help desk: the person who writes to you is the person who writes the code that builds these pages. You can reach that person through the contact page or directly at [email protected], and messages are read in English and in Spanish.
This site sells nothing. It has no ticket counter, takes no payments, holds no accounts and asks you to register for nothing. Everything on it is information; a ride is bought from the operator or in whatever app you already use.
An independent guide, not the transit agency
This is an independent guide to the Philadelphia subway, built from open data. It is not the transit agency’s website. It is not operated by, affiliated with, endorsed by, checked by or sponsored by SEPTA or by any transportation authority, and there is no commercial relationship with any of them.
The names of the operator, of the lines, of the stations and of the fare products appear on this site for one purpose only: to identify the service the site informs you about. That is descriptive use, and it is permitted precisely because it creates no confusion about who is speaking. The marks and logos remain the property of their owners. The operator’s logo is not used on this site, its official system map is not reproduced, its line bullets are not copied, and nothing here is an imitation of them: the diagrams and the map on this site are drawn from the coordinates and the stop order in the open data, which is the part the licence lets us redistribute. The licence itself is quoted, and its limits set out, on Sources and licences.
This paragraph is the only place on the whole site where that is spelled out, and that is deliberate. A disclaimer repeated in every footer does not become clearer; it becomes invisible.
Live figures and scheduled times
Once, here, precisely. Of the three lines, only the Norristown High Speed Line has live arrival data available from the source; it was measured route by route, and the measurement, with its date and its counts, is on Sources and licences. On the Broad Street Line and the Market–Frankford Line what you read is the published timetable: it knows nothing about delays, disruption, track work or a shuttle bus. Service alerts cover all three lines and are shown as notices, not as arrivals.
A live figure on this site carries a timestamp. If there is no timestamp, it is not live. When a live source stops answering, the page shows the last figure it has with the time it was read, or leaves the block out. You will not be shown an error message, and you will not be shown an invented minute.
How long the information stays good
The timetable comes out of a file with its own expiry date, and the current one runs to 20 February 2027. It is fetched again every day and the whole site is recomputed. The single fare and the transfer rule come from the same file, which is unusual and worth saying: they are not a price copied off a web page last spring. Anything on this site that does come from a dated reading carries that date beside it, which is information you need in order to judge how fresh a figure is.
Which source was used for what, under which licence, and the full list of what the sources do not publish, are on Sources and licences.
Liability
This site is assembled automatically from the sources named above. A great deal is checked, mistakes are still possible, and the sources can change without notice. This site does not replace official travel information. If the minute matters — a flight, an appointment, the last train — check it with the operator.
To the extent the law allows, liability is excluded for loss arising from use of this site, from decisions based only on what it says, and from the site being temporarily unreachable. Rights you have under mandatory law, including consumer protection law, are not affected by this notice and are not waived by reading it.
Copyright and reuse
The text, the structure, the choice of what to cover, the diagrams and the map on this site are original work. Quote from them with a credit and a link to the page; that is all that is asked, and asking first is not necessary. Reproducing a whole page is a different thing and the answer is no.
The transport data is not ours to give away. The schedule is used under the agency’s own licence, which is revocable and carries a restriction on its marks; the nearby places come from OpenStreetMap under the Open Database License 1.0 and require the credit “© OpenStreetMap contributors”, which is why that line appears on every page that shows them. If you want to use that data yourself, go to the source rather than to this site: both licences, and what each one allows, are set out on Sources and licences.
How this site is paid for
It is worth being plain about this, because it explains what you do and do not see. This site takes no payment from the transit agency and has no arrangement with it. There are no affiliate links, no sponsored sections, no paid placements, no “recommended app” that paid to be recommended, and no page whose contents were decided by anyone other than the publisher. Nothing on these pages is ranked, reordered or omitted because of money.
The running costs are hosting and a domain name. The audience measurement described in the privacy policy is used to see which pages are worth improving. If advertising is ever added, it will appear in the cookie policy and in the privacy policy before it appears on a page, and you will be asked again — that is the only order in which consent means anything.
Links to other websites
Where this site links out, it is because the source or the official information is there. We are not responsible for the content, the availability or the privacy practices of those sites. A link is not an endorsement and not a partnership.
Privacy and cookies
What this site collects, who else sees it and what you can do about it is in the privacy policy, written in the form of a notice at collection. Which cookies actually appear, when each one appears and what it holds is in the cookie policy.
Governing law
The publisher is established in Spain and the site is hosted in the European Union, so Spanish law governs this notice and the publisher’s own obligations, including the information duties of Spanish law 34/2002 on information society services, and European Union data protection law governs the handling of personal data. If you are reading from the United States, that does not take away any right you have under federal or state law, and the rights California law gives you are set out in the privacy policy.
This site is not a United States business and does not provide a transportation service in Pennsylvania or anywhere else. Where a mandatory rule of your own jurisdiction — typically consumer law — points to a different court or a different law, that rule prevails over this paragraph.
Reporting something wrong in this document
If anything here is factually wrong, out of date or unclear, write to [email protected] or use the contact page. That is faster than a letter and it gets fixed faster. This version of the document is from November 2026.