SEPTA officers shared Thursday {that a} card manufacturing subject was inflicting some scholar, senior, paratransit and diminished fare passes to be declined at subways, buses and Regional Rail places.
The excellent news? The transit company experiences that the difficulty isn’t affecting riders who use normal SEPTA Key playing cards or contactless funds strategies like bank cards, debit playing cards and Apple and Google Pay platforms. In addition they stated cashiers, operators and Regional Rail employees are being instructed to permit prospects to trip with out disruption whereas SEPTA works with the cardboard producer on a repair.
The difficulty, SEPTA says, is that an incorrect expiration date was assigned to sure playing cards.
In different information, SEPTA is making ready to roll out sweeping modifications to the names of its routes. They shared out a photograph of latest signage at Metropolis on social media earlier Thursday.
All this follows a busy fall, which included an averted strike and Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro taking stopgap measures to shut a funding hole that threatened to place the company in a dying spiral.
Extra lately, SEPTA rolled out an replace to its smartphone app, which opened to blended critiques.