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HUDSON VALLEY, NY — The MTA announced that the MTA's new "tap and go" ticket system, One Metro New York (OMNY) will not come to the Metro-North Railroad until 2025, delayed from the original ...
MANHATTAN, NY — The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announced Tuesday that it has successfully installed contactless fare payment at all 151 Manhattan subway stations and all 800 ...
The MTA plans to bring OMNY to all 472 subway stations and all bus routes by the end of next year, and the agency will introduce its own contactless transit card in 2021.
The private Bibb Transit Company controlled public transit in the city until their 1973 purchase by the county government. Fare structure and operation [ edit ] As of 2022, the regular fare is US$ 1.25, with discounted rates available for seniors age 62 and higher ( US$ 0.6) and students between 13 age 13 and 12th grade ( US$ 0.75).
2017–2021 New York City transit crisis. In 2017, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo declared a state of emergency for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) due to ongoing reliability and crowding problems with mass transit in New York City. This order applied particularly to the New York City Subway, which was the most severely affected ...
Traffic & Transit Subways 'Saved' With $6B Payment To MTA, Schumer Declares The "largest grant" in MTA history will arrive as subway ridership fell amid a COVID-19 surge fueled by the omicron variant.
Some riders who used the OMNY contactless payment system Monday morning were charged $2.90 because of a technical glitch caused by a vendor's software test, according to the MTA's Twitter account.
As of August 2023, NICE buses do not have ways for customers to pay by contactless card or device using OMNY, despite this program being effective on MTA transit vehicles since early 2020. In August 2023, the fare was increased to $2.90 ($1.45 for seniors and disabled customers) from $2.75 ($1.35).