NEW YORK (WABC) -- The MTA is reportedly working on plans to design a new payment system to take the place of MetroCard. The transit agency is considering touch-free technology that would allow riders ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Starting January 1, New Yorkers will no longer be able to buy or reload MetroCards to pay fare on the city's subways and buses as ...

The MTA has not introduced daily or monthly OMNY fare caps, even as it phased out daily and monthly MetroCards.

NEW YORK (PIX11) – New Yorkers – are you ready to say goodbye to the MetroCard and hello to OMNY? MetroCards will be fully phased out on Dec. 31, meaning commuters won’t be able to buy one after that ...

One of New York City’s most iconic transit staples is about to be phased out. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority will stop selling and distributing MetroCards on Wednesday, Dec. 31, officially ...

For more than three decades, lifelong New Yorkers and tourists visiting the Big Apple have shared the experience of a MetroCard swipe gone wrong. Swiping the transit card too fast or too slow, with ...

MetroCards were phased out of New York City’s subways and buses by New Year's Eve in favor of OMNY’s tap-and-go payment system, but there’s still one place the plastic fare card is welcome. The New ...

When the MetroCard replaced the New York City subway token in 1994, the swipeable plastic card infused much-needed modernity into one of the world’s oldest and largest transit systems. Now, more than ...

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