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SEPTA customers can tap their contactless credit card, debit card, smart phone or watch to ride SEPTA buses, trolleys, and subways. Regional Rail will follow in Summer 2024. SEPTA joins… Continue reading Contactless Payments

Beginning October 1, 2023, open strollers are no longer restricted based on time of day but will be dependent on space. This new policy is apart of SEPTA’s Micromobility Playbook… Continue reading Open Stroller Policy

Beginning Friday, September 29, 2023 – riders on SEPTA’s city and suburban buses, trolleys, Market-Frankford Line, Broad Street Line, and Norristown High Speed Line can tap any contactless credit card… Continue reading SEPTA Rolls Out More Ways to Pay

This week – SEPTA released its Micromobility Playbook under the SEPTA Forward Strategic Plan. The playbook is an update to the agency’s Cycle-Transit Plan of 2015 created with actions to… Continue reading SEPTA’s Micromobility Playbook Introduced

System-wide ridership in August was 64% of pre-COVID August 2019 ridership. On average there were approximately 54,216 more riders per day in August ‘23 compared to August ‘22. This is… Continue reading August 2023 Ridership Trends

SEGD’s (The Society for Experiential Graphic Design) 50th Anniversary Celebration and Conference Experience “Look Both Ways” took place on August 26, 2023 in Washington DC. Since 1987 – SEGD has… Continue reading 2023 SEGD Achievement Award Winner

Earlier this year – a crew from the Smithsonian Channel’s “How Did They Fix That?” television series was at SEPTA to film how our workforce keeps the system running safely… Continue reading How Did They Fix That?

More contactless ways to pay are coming soon! To prepare – we recommend you keep your SEPTA Key card separate from your other contactless cards. Here’s why: card clash. Card… Continue reading Avoid Card Clash

At a press conference on Monday, August 28, 2023 – Mayor Kenney announced the City of Philadelphia will provide free transit benefits for all eligible City employees – approximately 22,000… Continue reading City of Philadelphia Joins SEPTA Key Advantage

On Monday, August 21, 2023 – SEPTA gathered with elected officials and other stakeholders at Susquehanna-Dauphin Station to celebrate the completion of a $24 million project that makes the North… Continue reading SEPTA Celebrates Completion of Accessibility Project at Susquehanna-Dauphin Station

Today – August 16, 2023 – SEPTA was joined by Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and Philadelphia City officials for the ribbon-cutting of the newly painted red “bus-only” lanes on… Continue reading Red “Bus Only” Lanes on Market Street

After a successful launch with employers across the region – SEPTA is expanding SEPTA Key Advantage to include colleges and universities. Swarthmore College is the first higher education institution to participate… Continue reading SEPTA Launches SEPTA Key Advantage UPass with Swarthmore College