Visiting Philly, likely late summer-early fall (Philadelphia, York: credit card, to buy, college)

[rowhomecity]

Originally Posted by Pilot1

I don't think Chester County is far behind. We have a lot of field stone farmhouses spread all over the county. There is one very close to me that was built in 1782. Many built in the early to mid 1800's by Welch settlers.

I adore Chester County, it is so pretty

[inmyownwords15]

Ride the 15 trolley

[Hannah5555]

Originally Posted by kyb01

Also senior transit cards have expiration dates.

This made me laugh. If we're dead we won't cost the city anything. Can't see why we would have to keep renewing the card.

[MarketStEl]

Originally Posted by kyb01

Unless they've sped up the process at 1234 Market to issue senior septa key cards right there at 1234, it will take months to get the card in the US mail.

I have a friend who's on long-term Social Security disability and thus is eligible for the reduced fare.

He went down to get his card in mid-September and got it in October.

My guess is that there was a huge crush of requests in the first months after the cards were introduced (and July 2016 would be early in the process), and that it's been cleared now.

Unless they process disabled Key ID cards in a different stream from senior cards. There was usually a four-week turnaround for the disabled reduced fare ID cards, which the Key ID cards have also replaced.

[MarketStEl]

Originally Posted by Hannah5555

This made me laugh. If we're dead we won't cost the city anything. Can't see why we would have to keep renewing the card.

Disabled riders need to renew their ID cards annually.

[Hannah5555]

Originally Posted by MarketStEl

Disabled riders need to renew their ID cards annually.

Understood. Baby steps introducing a new process/tool. Seems like an additional hardship for disabled folks, though. Maybe eventually they could produce short term disabled vs long term disabled cards, like they do for handicapped parking permits. I got a SEPTA card when I was there in November, registered it online and will keep it loaded until I have a chance to apply for the senior card.

The suggestions on this thread are awesome btw. Can't wait to get there!

[kyb01]

Originally Posted by Hannah5555

This made me laugh. If we're dead we won't cost the city anything. Can't see why we would have to keep renewing the card.

True dat.. But, it's just the hassle of renewing it when that was not necessary before.

[Hannah5555]

Originally Posted by kyb01

True dat.. But, it's just the hassle of renewing it when that was not necessary before.

Exactly.

[kyb01]

Originally Posted by MarketStEl

I have a friend who's on long-term Social Security disability and thus is eligible for the reduced fare.

He went down to get his card in mid-September and got it in October.

My guess is that there was a huge crush of requests in the first months after the cards were introduced (and July 2016 would be early in the process), and that it's been cleared now.

Unless they process disabled Key ID cards in a different stream from senior cards. There was usually a four-week turnaround for the disabled reduced fare ID cards, which the Key ID cards have also replaced.

Excellent. I'm glad it's faster now.

No, I don't think there was a crush in the beginning because very few seniors knew they needed to switch at the time I applied. It was probably more about bugs and delays wrt implementing the cards which are not regular key cards as you know.

[MoItaly]

THANK YOU ALL! Sorry, I got busy and it took some time to come back here and check. I am going to re-read all the answers during the weekend and save some to my Evernote. Plenty of great information, amazing stuff.
I'll probably bother you further with some more specific info down the road....Again, super thanks! Molte grazie!