New features for SEPTA mobile phone site
SEPTA has added several new features to its mobile website, m.septa.org.
Android, iPhone and other smartphone users can now look up fares, search for sales locations by ZIP code and view regional rail and transit service maps. Users will also find more detailed station profile pages with a Google Maps locator, information on special service for sporting and other events and a newsroom.
The mobile site doesn’t automatically redirect yet, so users will have to type the site — m.septa.org — directly into their browsers and those not using modern smartphone browsers like iPhone, Android or the new Palm and Blackberry may have difficulty using some parts of the site, SEPTA said.
SEPTA first launched the mobile site in December 2009, making tools like its Next to Arrive and TrainView accessible by cell phone low interest personal loan.
SEPTA commuters were also provided another option for information on-the-go earlier this month with the addition of SEPTA alerts to ReadyNotifyPA, a free emergency text and e-mail alert system.
Regional rail commuters on SEPTA were affected Tuesday morning by power problems attributed to Amtrak. Some passengers had to leave trains short of their destinations and were directed to buses or subways. At one point service was suspended before starting up, with delays, later in the morning.
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