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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.
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.
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 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,...
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.
On October 23, 2017, it was announced that the MetroCard would be phased out and replaced by OMNY, a contactless fare payment system also made by Cubic, with fare payment being made using Apple Pay, Google Pay, debit/credit cards with near-field communication technology, or radio-frequency identification cards.
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.
The New York City Subway is a rapid transit system in the New York City boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. It is owned by the government of New York City and leased to the New York City Transit Authority, [14] an affiliate agency of the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA). [15]
Straphangers will only be able to pay full fares on a per-ride basis until the new system, known as OMNY, hits every subway station and bus route, according to the MTA's website.