SEPTA's digital key by April? ... and other stuff I'm reading
Please note: This article is published as an archive copy from Philadelphia City Paper. My City Paper is not affiliated with Philadelphia City Paper. Philadelphia City Paper was an alternative weekly newspaper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The last edition was published on October 8, 2015.
Screenshot via SEPTA YouTube video.
Billy Penn: "SEPTA has now installed 25 percent of its new digital system," reports Anna Orso. SEPTA's pace for installing its new digital turnstiles around Philly has apparently quickened. While SEPTA wouldn't confirm a launch date for its new digital system, Orso does the math and predicts, at its current pace, SEPTA's new system will be ready by April.
Technical.ly Philly: Forget Shake Shack. The initial public offering to be aware of is the one from Spark Therapeutics, which "aims to cure rare genetic diseases like types of hemophilia and blindness," writes Juliana Reyes. The startup raised $161 million in its IPO on January 30.
Philebrity: The first rule of customer service for company representatives is to never change a customer's name to an expletive. As Philebrity points out, it looks like a Comcast rep in Washington state didn't get the message.
