PATCO Ticket Machines, 8th Street Station, Philadelphia

PATCO Ticket Machines, 8th Street Station, Philadelphia in album Philadelphia

Two electronic PATCO ticket machines, with metal, yellow, and black surfaces and lots of color, a red PATCO station in the background

Jul 19th, 2011, by Alex Zorach

These two PATCO ticket machines are located in the 8th street PATCO station in Philadelphia.

You can also view a picture of the gates in this station.

As much as I love SEPTA, I find that these ticket machines offer a much better experience than SEPTA's automated machines. SEPTA has token machines, which only sell tokens, not any of the passes--passes must be purchased manually from an attendant, making the passes trickier to come into the possession of. SEPTA's machines are also often out-of-order, and they have quirks, such as not dispensing individual tokens, and requiring you to purchase them in certain unintuitive quantities.