The Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority is moving forward with plans to introduce smart cards and could replace its tokens — described by the Philadelphia Daily News as a “pain in the mass-transit” — by 2011. “I would like for folks to be able to pay for a SEPTA trip by using whatever they have in their pocket — a credit/debit card, a student ID card, a cell phone with a computerized sticker that acts as a surrogate credit/debit card, whatever,” said John McGee, SEPTA’s chief officer of new-payment technology. Link to full story in Philadelphia Daily News.
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