SEPTA To Hold Another Lottery For Papal Transit Passes
You can enter the lottery for the 10 dollar passes from 12:01am until 11:59pm on Wednesday August 12th.
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You can enter the lottery for the 10 dollar passes from 12:01am until 11:59pm on Wednesday August 12th.
SEPTA says a limited number of special papal visit 3-day transit passes for travel on the Trolley routes 101/102 and the Norristown High Speed Line will be made available through an online lottery.
SEPTA received requests for 328-thousand passes, so they still have 22-thousand available. However, that doesn't mean you can still get one for your preferred station.
Special train passes for the weekend of Pope Francis' visit to Philadelphia aren't as big a hit as expected.
On Thursday, emails will go out to the randomly selected winners.
SEPTA's second attempt at selling regional rail tickets for the Pope's visit is now underway, but this time, its a lottery that ends at midnight tonight.
After their first try at Pope train ticket sales crashed the website, SEPTA reached out to TicketLeap, a Center City company that helps event organizers sell tickets on line.
The passes go on sale at 12:01 a.m. Monday on the transit agency's website.
Some residents have voiced concerns that public transit in the area will be limited while Pope Francis is here.
Papal pilgrims taking the Broad Street Line or the Frankford El now know where they'll have to get off.
SEPTA was expected to announce today when Regional Rail transit passes for the Papal visit would be available, but Monday afternoon SEPTA said the announcement has been postponed for later this week.
SEPTA's Andrew Busch says those systems had to be slowed down and shut down for safety reasons.
Whitemarsh Township Police expect 10,000 people to catch trains from the Fort Washington SEPTA train station on both days of the Pope's visit.
Technical problems forced the transit agency to suspend online sales of its special passes Monday less than two hours after the transit agency began selling them.
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SEPTA officials promise 24-hour notice as to when the papal pass website will go back online and sales will resume.
Technical problems forced SEPTA to suspend online sales of its special passes for regional rail service during the visit of Pope Francis to Philadelphia less two hours after the transit agency began selling them.
The one-day passes cost $10 a piece and are being sold only online through a link at the transit agency's website.
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Starting Monday at 9 a.m., special one-day Papal Passes will become available for purchase.
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