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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.
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 Maryland Transit Administration (MTA) uses a compatible payment system called CharmCard. A reciprocity agreement between the MTA and WMATA allows either card to be used for travel on any of the participating transit systems in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area .
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.
The contactless payment system is already available on NYC subways and buses; the LIRR rollout will be delayed until 2024, MTA said.
MTA New York City Bus operates seven of the express routes in Brooklyn and Queens, which are prefixed with the letter X, as well as all express routes in Staten Island, which are prefixed with the letters SIM. The unidirectional fare, payable with MetroCard or OMNY, a contactless payment system which will replace the MetroCard by 2024, is $7.
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,...
Below are the fares charged for single boardings on the transit lines and predecessors of the New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA). Different combinations of transfer privileges and the abolition of double fares to the Rockaways have altered these fares from time to time.
MTA leaders approved a pilot that gives OMNY tap-to-pay users the equivalent of a $33 weekly unlimited pass if they take more than 12 rides. Nikki Gaskins , Patch Staff