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For example, with a pay-per-ride fare of $2.75 and a weekly unlimited MetroCard cost of $33 (as of October 2021), a passenger would still pay $2.75 per trip if they made 12 or fewer trips in a week; under the proposal, they would pay no more than $33 within a week, even if they made 13 or more trips. [159]
Pre-loaded SmartLink cards with 10 trips are available at all stations for $31.00 (10 trips at $2.60 each, plus a $5.00 card fee). However, MetroCard Vending Machines (MVMs) at all PATH stations are able to refill the SmartLink cards to a monetary amount equal to 1, 2, 4, 10, 20 and 40 trips as well as the daily or 30 day unlimited passes.
A 2013 Motor Coach D4500CT (2272) on the Midtown-bound X64 on the Long Island Expressway’s HOV lane near the Brooklyn–Queens Expressway. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) operates 80 express bus routes in New York City, United States. Express routes operated by MTA Bus Company are assigned multi-borough (BM, BxM, QM) prefixes.
The contactless OMNY fare payment system installed in 2019-2020 supports the same free transfers as the MetroCard does. Some paper transfers between specific subway stations and bus routes also existed prior to July 4, 1997, when the MetroCard allowed free system-wide subway–bus transfers with fewer restrictions.
All MetroCard turnstiles were installed by May 14, 1997, when the entire bus and subway system accepted MetroCard. [116] On September 28, 1995, buses on Staten Island started accepting MetroCard, and by the end of 1995, MetroCard was accepted on all New York City Transit buses. [116] Before 1997, the MetroCard design was blue with yellow lettering.
[42] [43] With the addition of unlimited-ride MetroCards in 1998, the New York City Transit system was the last major transit system in the United States, with the exception of BART in San Francisco, to introduce passes for unlimited bus and rapid transit travel. [44] Unlimited-ride MetroCards are available for 7-day and 30-day periods. [45]
Metrocard: Adelaide Metro : 24 October 2011 (First equipment installation) South East Queensland: Go card: Translink : 29 January 2008 / 25 February 2008 (network-wide) Canberra: MyWay: Transport for Canberra (Parkeon / Downer EDi) 7 March 2011 Northern Territory: Tap and Ride Card: Darwin Bus/ASbus: Dec 2014 (Darwin, Alice Springs) [29] Perth ...
Unlimited-ride MetroCards are available for 7-day and 30-day periods. [170] One-day "Fun Pass" and 14-day cards were also introduced, but have since been discontinued. [171] In April 2016, MTA solicited proposals for a contactless "New Fare Payment System" to replace the MetroCard by 2022. [172]