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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) NEW YORK CITY — Fare thee well ...
SmarTrip was the first contactless smart card for transit in the United States when WMATA began selling SmarTrip cards on May 18, 1999. By 2004, 650,000 SmarTrip cards were in circulation. [25] On November 12, 2002, the first SmarTrip readers were used on Metrobuses. [24]
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.
Traffic & Transit Metro-North Not Expected To Get OMNY Pay Until 2025: MTA The contactless payment system is already available on NYC subways and buses, but not on Metro-North or the LIRR.
OMNY, the contactless fare payment system, was meant to be the wave of the future when the MTA introduced it five years ago, but since then, it's run into major roadblocks in NYC.
The announcement calls for the expansion of this system to a general-use electronic fare payment system at 500 subway turnstiles and on 600 buses by late 2018, with all buses and subway stations using electronic fare collection by 2020.
The MTA announced in 2021 that it would install wide-aisle fare gates for disabled passengers at five subway stations by mid-2022; the implementation of these fare gates was delayed by a year. [187] [188] Additionally, in an attempt to reduce fare evasion, the MTA exhibited several designs for half-height and full-height Plexiglas turnstiles in ...
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.