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Riders can also use smartphones or wearable devices with enabled digital wallets like Apple Pay, Samsung Pay, Google Pay and Fitbit Pay. The MTA also says its own contactless transit card will be ...
The New York City Transit Authority (also known as NYCTA, the TA, [2] or simply Transit, [3] and branded as MTA New York City Transit) is a public-benefit corporation in the U.S. state of New York that operates public transportation in New York City.
Contactless trial on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line, 2007. Subway tokens had been used as the MTA subway and bus systems' form of fare payment since the 1950s. MetroCards made by Cubic Transportation Systems started to replace the tokens in 1992; the MetroCards used magnetic stripes to encode the fare payment.
On April 29, 2003, an agreement to implement a smart card system between the seven agencies in the Central Puget Sound Regional Fare Coordination Project (Sound Transit, King County Metro, Community Transit, Everett Transit, Pierce Transit, Kitsap Transit, and Washington State Ferries) was signed along with a $43 million contract [1] awarded to ...
Most E-ZPass lanes are converted manual toll lanes and must have fairly low speed limits for safety reasons (between 5 and 15 miles per hour (8 and 24 km/h) is typical), so that E-ZPass vehicles can merge safely with vehicles that stopped to pay a cash toll and, in some cases, to allow toll workers to safely cross the E-ZPass lanes to reach booths accepting cash payments.
Fare payment would be made using Apple Pay, Google Wallet, debit/credit cards with near-field communication enabled, or radio-frequency identification cards. [60] [61] As part of the implementation of OMNY, the MTA also plans to use the system in the Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North Railroad. [62]
First OMNY Card Machines Roll Out To Replace MetroCards - New York City, NY - Six subway stations now have vending machines for the refillable, tap-to-pay OMNY cards as the MTA preps a system-wide ...
Metro-North Not Expected To Get OMNY Pay Until 2025: MTA - Yorktown-Somers, NY - The contactless payment system is already available on NYC subways and buses, but not on Metro-North or the LIRR.