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SEPTA is developing a tool to let you text 9-1-1 [PhillyMag]

The news comes amid recent videos of SEPTA passengers using drugs or neglecting their children.

A SEPTA R100 car in Norristown. Photo by Flickr user @redarrow101, used under a Creative Commons license.

SEPTA is developing a tool that will let passengers text their emergency dispatchers, PhillyMag reported.

The news comes amid recent videos of SEPTA passengers using drugs or neglecting their children.

It will be a SEPTA-specific tool, expected to launch this summer. (The Philadelphia Police Department has previously said that it would be very expensive to develop a texting tool for 9-1-1.)

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Companies: SEPTA

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