40th Street MFL Station

This is a station on the MFL that goes eastbound to 30^th Street, Center City, and Frankford. The westbound direction goes through west Philly to the 69^th Street transportation center. The station is average for a SEPTA subway station– not clean but workable

It’s an MFL Station. It’s dark, grungy, not air conditioned, rarely heated, has zero sound absorption for empty trains, rarely cleaned, no escalators or other crowd control mechanisms, absolutely no ADA compliance, limited signage, overcrowded when the Trolleys run to it, uses magnetic strip monthly payment cards you can only buy in Center City, no credit cards, and 1980 called asking for their tokens back still used here for daily rides. Then again, most of this is SEPTA in general. One star for a working Subway that runs through it. Another because it’s underground and not overground.

The Penn kids tend to all cluster on the platform right at the entrance, so you’re pretty likely to get a seat if you walk down the platform in either direction a bit.

How in the world do you rate a stop on the MFL? Relative to others? This one, as many are, is dirty and gross. It is convenient to Penn and Drexel and other University City areas.
As David mentioned you can’t buy tokens here — but I use a pass anyway.
Be careful at night — as is common sense in any major city.

The station is usually pretty clean, but occasionally smells like urine like most Phily stations. Trains come quite frequently, and they’re usually on time. It’s convenient for those who want to quickly get downtown or to W. Philly. Illegal cab drivers hang out here waiting in case you want to get somewhere quicker. It’s surprising that the police have allowed this to go on for so long.