Broad Street (Philadelphia)
Broad Street is a major arterial street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is nearly 13 miles long. It is Pennsylvania Route 611 along its entire length with the exception of its northernmost part between Old York Road and Pennsylvania Route 309 (Cheltenham Avenue) and the southernmost part south of Interstate 95. The north–south street lies between 13th Street and 15th Street, in lieu of 14th Street. It is interrupted at the block containing Philadelphia City Hall, which stands where Broad and Market Street would intersect in the center of Center City; Broad meets Market as a pedestrian path replacing the roadway at the center of the City Hall block. The landmark claim is that it is one of the earliest planned streets in the United States, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a continuous north-south Broad Street plan by surveyor Thomas Holme developed for Philadelphia in 1681.
Public transportation includes SEPTA's Broad Street Line subway, which served about 110,000 riders per day in 2007, runs beneath Broad for most of its length. The subway starts in the Fern Rock neighborhood and extends through Center City to Pattison Avenue in South Philadelphia.
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