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12 Days of SEPTA

December 19, 2020

Every December, SEPTA’s frontline maintenance and surface transportation employees decorate buses and trolleys in festive holiday style and compete for bragging rights at the Authority’s annual All District Holiday Vehicle Competition!

The amount of creativity, time, and dedication that the teams' put into their vehicles [on their own time using materials donated by coworkers, friends, and family] helps employees from different departments get to know and appreciate each other.

Each District works together to come up with a theme for their respective vehicle. The themes have ranged from Scooby Doo and Winter Candyland to Here Comes Sandy Claws and Sesame Street.

BASCSC [Building A SEPTA Community of Service and Camaraderie], which began in 2012, is comprised of SEPTA employees who volunteer their time and energy to work on initiatives identified by senior management as crucial to SEPTA's efforts to not only meet, but exceed customer expectations.

For the past 8 years, BASCSC helped to coordinate the annual competition - bringing cheering, festive spectators to the event and the media. BASCSC also helped in setting up displays throughout the city so that more people could see the buses. Past pop-ups include the Army-Navy Game and the Christmas Village at Love Park.

This year, SEPTA employees, families, and friends were disappointed that the event [that was scheduled to be held at Southern District on December 2, 2020] was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

So, the BASCSC team geared up and found a way to showcase vehicles from years past by way of a SEPTA virtual video greeting card.

The vehicles will be showcased alphabetically by district beginning December 20 thru December 31. We'll post the videos on social media and here. Keep checking back each day to see the latest and greatest! Comment below which is your favorite! Happy Holidays!

12/20: Allegheny

🎄 #SEPTA's Frontline Virtual Greeting Card begins TODAY! Showcasing past fun-filled holiday vehicles 🚌 as 2020 rolls AWAY. ALLEGHENY DISTRICT in North Philadelphia kicks it all in GEAR. There's only 12 days left before the end of the YEAR!

12/21: Callowhill (Bus)

On the second cold wintery ❄️ night when all was CHILL - in came West Philly [Bus] District CALLOWHILL - with visions of GINGERBREAD and Jack Skellington's 💀 HEAD!

12/22: Callowhill (Trolley)

The crew from West Philly's CALLOWHILL District knows there's nothing more JOLLY 🎄 than a decorated 🎀 TROLLEY! From each strand of tinsel to each tiny LIGHT - these decorated vehicles make DAY 3 quite the SIGHT!

12/23: Comly

Next up we have COMLY from the NORTHEAST. Bringing us Mickey, and Rudolph 🦌, and a furry snow BEAST. With only 9 days to go - anyone else hoping for more snow ❄️?

12/24: Elmwood

These trolleys hail from ELMWOOD DISTRICT in SOUTHWEST PHILLY - where hearts 💗 are warm and never CHILLY ❄️. Today marks DAY FIVE - can't wait to see which decorated vehicles are NEXT TO ARRIVE!

12/25: Frankford

The talented crews at FRANKFORD once helped the Grinch steal a SEPTA BUS! And celebrated Big Bird's Birthday 🎂 - without MR. SNUFFLEUPAGUS...? All we can SAY - is have a very merry CHRISTMAS 🎄 DAY!

12/26: Frontier

In Conshohocken is where you find FRONTIER - operating around the clock ⏱️ - all YEAR! This DAY 7 holiday tribute to Disney's Lion 🦁 KING - makes us want to SING 🎶!

12/27: Germantown

Aloha 🌺 from GERMANTOWN! Where dancing the hula is always DOWN! A holiday escape ✈️ sounds so NICE - you don't need to ask us TWICE!

12/28: Midvale

MIDVALE in Nicetown has paid tribute to our TROOPS 🪖 and VETS. And decorated the SMURFIEST 💙 bus we have ever MET[S]!

12/29: Southern

SOUTHERN in South Philly is a tough nut[cracker] 🌰 to FOLLOW! But they did again with a SWEET SHOPPE 🍬 made of MARSHMELLOW!

12/30: Victory (Bus)

VICTORY in Upper Darby made a MYSTERY MACHINE 🐕and ROCKED AROUND THE CHRISTMAS TREE 🎄 like no one has ever SEEN! Their TROPICAL HOLIDAY is so inviting in the most wonderful WAY!