MTA's plan to wind down MetroCard by end of 2025 may affect Nassau County bus riders
Nassau bus riders rely on the 30-year-old fare card to get free transfers to and from New York City buses and subways, says ...
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OMNY contactless fare system coming to NICE buses this year, officials say
The contactless fare payment system, which replaces the 30-year-old MetroCard ... given the scarcity of MetroCard vending machines at key bus stops in Nassau and Queens. “I do not understand ...
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Thursday’s Headlines: Bye Bye, MetroCard Edition
There are no monthly or weekly OMNY fares — instead riders who take 12 trips in a single week get the rest of their rides for free, a system that avoids the $40 million of unused MetroCard fares ...
MTA is replacing MetroCards with tap-and-go payments. Here’s what CT riders need to know.
By Dec. 31, 2025, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority will end the sale and distribution of MetroCards. Here's what it ...
NYC MetroCard payment system to be phased out by MTA
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New Yorkers will say goodbye to MetroCards by year’s end, as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority ...
‘Embarrassing’ that Belfast Grand Central Station does not sell cross-border tickets on its machines
The inability to purchase cross-border travel tickets from machines at Belfast Grand Central Station has been branded ...
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Transit Briefs: NYMTA, San Diego MTS/NCTD, Sound Transit, Coastal Link
New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) is sunsetting MetroCard sales and distribution after 32 years. Also, ...
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NYC's 'Fair Fares' low-income transit discounts now available on OMNY cards
Unlike the old ... Fair Fares program onto the MTA’s digital OMNY system, we are making it even easier for working-class New Yorkers to access discounted rides on our trains and on our buses ...
MetroCard sales ending this year, MTA says. Here's when they will be phased out.
The MTA started installing OMNY, a contactless fare payment system, back in 2019, and the agency has been in the process of ...
Trump freeze on resettlement funding leaves new refugees scrambling to adjust in U.S.
Thousands of newly arrived refugees lost financial support and help with setting up their new lives in America. Aid groups ...