It might not always seem that way, like when the bus still pulls away without you despite your sprinting and shouts, but SEPTA listens.

At least when it comes to planning a new bus route. At a public meeting on Tuesday, SEPTA planners unveiled a longer, straighter proposal for a new route that would connect Grays Ferry and Brewerytown through University City, providing both booming bedroom communities with one-seat rides to the city’s second-largest employment hub. The new route comes as a response to rider demand.

This is the third year SEPTA has proposed Route 49 at its annual service plan open house, but planners feel the third time’s the charm. “We feel very confident about this proposal,” said Steve D’Antonio, SEPTA’s city service planning director. After multiple planning meetings with community groups, SEPTA says, everyone now seems on board, which means the new service could begin as soon as September (assuming some construction along the route is completed by then; if not, the new service will begin in February 2019.)

North-to-south, the route runs from the 33rd and Dauphin Streets bus loop in Strawberry Mansion down 29th Street to Pennsylvania Avenue, passing through Brewerytown to Fairmount, where it turns down Fairmount Avenue to 21st Street The buses will then take Market Street over the Schuylkill River, then cut through the Drexel and Penn campuses to the complex of buildings home to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia VA Medical Center. The route then takes the 34th Street Bridge over to Grays Ferry Avenue, turning down 29th to Snyder. It’s mostly the same in reverse, with a block adjustment here and there to account for one-way streets.