Jun. 17, 2026 6:00 am
Students are not “too cool to swipe,” they are too young to fix broken systems
Twenty years after a historic win granting transit access to Philadelphia students, Philadelphia has a new solution to fare card problems: warnings, police interaction, citations, court referrals, and potentially criminal records for children. Officials insist the goal is not to criminalize students. The first sentence of the policy says otherwise: not paying for SEPTA is […]