Fare evasion has become a costly problem for SEPTA as the transportation agency faces a $213 million budget shortfall.

Worth noting: SEPTA reverted to higher fines for fare evading last July amid concerns around systemwide safety and quality-of-life issues. By the numbers: Fare evasion citations have been way up ...

as well as manual fare evasion counts done by staff. "The Market Frankford Line, just because it's a high ridership line, we see more issues there," SEPTA spokesperson Andrew Busch said.

SEPTA will be adding its new 3D-technology “fare evasion” gates to nine Market-Frankford (L) and Broad Street line stations after successfully piloting them at its 69th Street Transportation ...

SEPTA general manager Leslie Richards was all smiles on Wednesday at 69th Street Station. She was there to debut six new gates designed to prevent fare evasion, a problem the agency claims costs ...

Last year, SEPTA installed “fare evasion” gates at the 69 th Street Transportation Center. The gates have full-length glass doors along with 3D technology that can detect when a fare evader is ...

SEPTA officials said the fare evasion accounts for one in four rides ... It is not clear how the authority and the courts plan to fix problems that plagued this system in the past.

"We are excited to see that the new gates are helping reduce fare evasion and enhance the quality of our service as a result," SEPTA Board Chair Kenneth E. Lawrence Jr. said in a news release.

The contract is part of a SEPTA program using Conduent’s 3D Fare Gate Solution to track and curb incidents of fare evasion, a problem that the authority says costs it at least $30 million annually.