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Since June 1, 2022, riders who qualified for reduced-fare MetroCards could also use OMNY with their contactless bank cards or smart devices, paying half the standard fare. At the time, reduced-fare OMNY cards were unavailable. [162] Each qualifying rider can only use one contactless card or device for reduced-fare OMNY. If a reduced-fare rider ...
As of March 2022, this meant that full-fare passengers paid $2.75 for each of the first 12 trips made in a week; after they had paid for 12 trips, their fare payment medium became an unlimited-fare on the 13th tap. [26] Reduced-fare customers were also eligible for the unlimited cap by making 12 trips in a week at $1.35 per ride, for a total ...
Reduced fares are available via a reduced-fare Pronto card for individuals with disabilities, seniors over the age of 65, and Medicare recipients. Reduced-fare Pronto cards with a photo of the user are available from transit agency offices, and standard Pronto cards can also be converted to reduced-fare status by applying online or in person.
New York City students are hawking their new, school-issued OMNY cards, asking for up to $1,500 from straphangers looking to get their hands on the subway and bus passes.
At the base bus and subway fare of $2.75, that’s about 180 million acts of fare evasion a year cutting into the MTA’s budget, which faces a $2.5 billion deficit come 2024.
Boarding New York City subways and most of its buses will cost another 15 cents before the summer is out under an MTA plan approved Wednesday that raises the base fare to $2.90. The MTA board in a ...
SmartLink is a RFID-enabled credit card-sized smartcard that is the primary fare payment method on the PATH transit system in Newark and Hudson County in New Jersey and Manhattan in New York City. It was designed to replace PATH's paper-based farecard, QuickCard, and there was plans to expand its usage throughout most transit agencies in the ...
The agency wants to contract analysts for a behavioral study that could cost up to $1 million to help curb “historic highs” of fare evasion with help of new grant money, a request for proposal ...