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Instead, in 2018, WMATA announced that contactless mobile payments would be coming to Metro, this time through a closed system that emulates the physical smart card and works with current fare collection equipment. The reduced scope of the project lowered costs dramatically, while constraining users to loading a balance on a SmarTrip account ...
In 2022, the MTA has stopped providing Boston senior citizens (65 or over) who ride the T's bus, subway, trolley and commuter rail lines with either new Senior ID Charlie Cards or with...
Open enrollment launched Monday for the MTA's Fair Fares program, which will provide discounted MetroCards to New York City residents, between the ages of 18 and 64, below the federal poverty line.
MTA officials plan to replace the MetroCard with OMNY in 2023. The system allows straphangers to use their smartphone, smart watch or contactless bank card to tap out a single-ride fare.
Passes and stored value left on an expired card can be moved to the replacement card. In 2021, MBTA announced plans to upgrade fare vending machines to be able to dispense CharlieCards.
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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.
That's the name the MTA has given the new tap-to-pay fare system that will eventually replace the MetroCard — and straphangers will give it a test starting Friday.
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. 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 August ...
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.
Customers can replace their old farecards by mail, online, phone, or in person, and transfer any balance to a new or existing SmarTrip card or virtual card through SmarTrip mobile pay for iOS...