Instead, riders have to hand them to a cashier and they may have to wait in line to do so, especially during rush hour. “We’re hoping as we roll out ‘SEPTA Key,’ lines at the token booth or cashier ...

He talked to a SEPTA employee in a little booth, who wasn’t having it. “I went up to him and I said, ‘Hey this machine just gave me a Pac-Man token like that instead of a SEPTA token ...

And since SEPTA started keeping track of that stat in July, the percentage of monthly TransPass holders who ran out of rides before they ran out of the month has never been greater than 0.2 percent.

Officials unveil $317M for railcars on SEPTA's Market-Frankford Line Hickman said the station's machines are set up to accept the smart cards that SEPTA plans to start using later this year.