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If we take the bus and only have our fare in cash what are we supposed to do? Exact Cash Fare ONLY - Operators and Cashiers will not make change. In 2014, SEPTA began deploying the new hardware necessary for the system at each station. Unlike the older paper passes, SEPTA Key imposes a limit on how many trips a rider can take on a pass 96 for a weekly pass, 240 for a monthly pass.


Regional Rail riders can either buy a new Key Card and load it with the monthly pass, or load a card they already own, according to SEPTA. Sale of Key Cards was opened to the public on February 9, 2017. Because they're so ubiquitous on the system, SEPTA expects to do a big public information push when the time comes to relegate tokens to Philadelphia's transit history.


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Long story short: It still has not fully launched. But you can still experiment with it. Then, SEPTA started allowing customers to purchase Key cards that had just the Travel Wallet — the program that allows users to add money to pay for single rides onto their cards — on them. But I really want one. You can technically purchase a Key card with a weekly or monthly TransPass and then load Travel Wallet funds on from there. When will I be able to just buy the Key card and load money onto it? SEPTA spokesman Andrew Busch said a full rollout can probably be expected in early 2017. Do people use those? A Quick Trip is one ride on the Market-Frankford line or Broad Street line, but instead of buying a token like you used to, you can use a credit or debit card, cash or a token to pay for the ride at a kiosk. As of mid-December, more than 157,000 Quick Trip rides were purchased. The Quick Trip pass can only be used to travel from the station where it was purchased on the day it was bought. I had to get a Quick Trip with my token from the kiosk because no one was in the booth. So union negotiations had something to do with this? Sure seems like it. In the end, SEPTA made some concessions to get workers back on the job, including allowing workers to take more breaks than they had before. OK, now I have a Key card. How do I load money onto it? Or, technically, you can use the website to reload funds onto your Travel Wallet. You can also call the Key Customer Call Center at 855-567-3782 for help reloading. Wait, why is like this? The current phase is just for transit outside of Regional Rail, including buses, trolleys, Market-Frankford Line, Broad Street Line and Norristown High Speed Line. However, you can still use a Key card loaded with a TransPass on Regional Rail on weekends and holidays. I keep finding tokens at the bottom of my bag. Can I still use them? At most locations, including the ones where all turnstiles have been switched over to the Key turnstiles, you can either hand them to the cashier staffing the booth or you can insert it into one of the kiosks and it will spit back a Quick Trip pass good for one ride that day. Busch said SEPTA plans to accept tokens as payment for the foreseeable future, long past when they actually stop selling tokens. When will they stop selling tokens? As we start building up our numbers on that, we will see less demand for people who want to buy tokens. Why has this whole process been so slow and gradual? As of mid-December, more than 22,000 Key cards had been sold so far and, of those, more than 10,000 customers have registered user accounts, according to Busch. There had been more than 100,000 card reloads. But better to have issues with a few thousand willing users than a system-wide failure that could impact an entire city. All Weekly Passes have a 56-ride limit.

 


The Fare Kiosks also accept tokens. For added convenience, you can load and reload money to the Travel Wallet. Retrieved August 2, 2018. It cannot be tapped multiple times to pay for anyone traveling with you. Knowing the zone of the station you are boarding and traveling to will help you determine the correct fare. OK, now I have a Key card.