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By December 2024, reduced-fare OMNY cards for seniors and disabled riders was ready to be distributed, while the Fair Fares OMNY card had yet to be rolled out. [ 65 ] [ 66 ] The NYC.gov website indicated in February 2025 that new Fair Fares customers will receive OMNY cards, while existing customers could either switch to an OMNY card or ...
As of June 2021, OMNY only supported full-fare and reduced-fare rides, including transfers, and the accepted payment methods were contactless debit/credit cards, mobile payments and the OMNY Card. [136] As of February 28, 2022, a Monday-to-Sunday weekly fare cap was implemented to provide unlimited rides after 12 fares were paid in a week. In ...
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.
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 Port Authority-run subway system will get a tap-and-pay fare system akin to the OMNY system now in place in New York City’s subways and buses, officials announced Monday. The system will be ...
Kids continued pawning off their special student OMNY cards this week despite MTA and city DOE claims that they were cracking down on the illegal sales. NYC students still slinging OMNY cards for ...
A reduced fare program refers to special programs providing particular passengers with a discounted fare option for travel on a public transport system. In the United States, public transportation systems that receive federal funding are required to offer, at minimum, half fares to the elderly and handicapped persons during off peak travel. [ 1 ]
By 2024, MetroCard will be discontinued and all Bee-Line passengers will then use OMNY. The Reduced-Fare MetroCard Program will also be converted over to OMNY." [9] For certain periods during the summer and winter of 2022, the buses were fare-free. [10] As of the summer of 2023, buses are fare free until Labor Day 2023.