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Here's How To Pay For Subway Rides With Your Phone. Straphangers will be able to test the MTA's new tap-to-pay fare system starting Friday. Here's what you need to know about OMNY.
OMNY can currently be used to pay fares at all New York City Subway and Staten Island Railway stations, on all MTA buses, AirTrain JFK, Metro North 's Hudson Rail Link, and on the Roosevelt Island Tram; when completely rolled out, it will also replace the MetroCard on Bee-Line buses, and NICE buses.
2012 (launched 1 February with Peninsula Taxi Association in the Western Cape) [1] Cape Town. MyConnect ( MasterCard PayPass) Golden Arrow Gold Card [2] MyCiti, Golden Arrow Bus Services. 2011, [3] 2018 [4] Durban. Muvo ( MasterCard PayPass) eThekwini Transport Authority with Standard Bank of South Africa. 2012.
The addition of Apple Pay to the MTA eTix app for Metro-North and Long Island Rail Road provides a convenient option that eliminates the need to type in any credit card numbers, billing info,...
MTA New York City Bus operates seven of the express routes in Brooklyn and Queens, which are prefixed with the letter X, as well as all express routes in Staten Island, which are prefixed with the letters SIM. The unidirectional fare, payable with MetroCard or OMNY, a contactless payment system which will replace the MetroCard by 2024, is $7.
The contactless MTA payment system OMNY will take longer than anticipated to be finished for the LIRR. (Daniel Hampton/Patch)
SmarTrip is a contactless stored-value smart card payment system managed by the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). The Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) uses a compatible payment system called CharmCard.
Monitors for the new MTA contactless fare payment system, known as OMNY, are seen on turnstiles at a subway station on March 3, 2021. (Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock)
The subway, Roosevelt Island Tram, the Staten Island Railway, and express buses only accept MetroCard and OMNY as payment. As of December 31, 2020, all subway stations, the Staten Island Railway, and all MTA-operated buses are equipped with OMNY readers.
NEW YORK CITY — The contactless fare payment system that will replace the iconic MetroCard is now at nearly every subway station in the city, MTA officials said.