Route
For many years, bus service operated along the entire length of West Chester Pike between 69th Street Terminal and the terminus of the Pike, just east of West Chester Borough, where West Chester Pike and Paoli Pike merge to form Gay Street (from the westbound direction) and Market Street (from the eastbound direction). Service operated via Gay Street, New Street, and Market Street, laying over on Market just east of New.
In the late 1990s, selected weekday peak hour short-turn trips were from extended the center of Newtown Square in Delaware County to serve the Newtown Square Corporate Campus just west of the center of town.
In 2002, service was extended to serve West Chester University, eliminating a 10-15 minute walk not just for college students, but also for residents of the borough's south end neighborhoods. This eliminated the simple loop routing that had been in effect for many years previously.
In addition, a new evening routing operated directly into the Edgmont Square Shopping Center, a rapidly developing retail complex in Edgmont Township, just west of the Edgmont/Newtown township boundary.
Today, Route 104 operates service to West Chester every 20 minutes during weekday peak hours, 30 minutes during weekday hours and on late Saturday afternoons, and every hour on evenings, most of the day on Saturday, and all day on Sunday. Short-turn trips to Newtown Square provide 10 minute headways to that town during weekday peak hours, and 30 minute service levels on Saturdays and Sundays.
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